# Presentation: 157117

## Next VVSG TrainingCRT - Hardware Requirements

- October 15-17, 2007
- Alan Goldfine
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- goldfine@nist.gov

## Three Areas of Hardware Requirements

- Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
- Other Environmental
- Quality Assurance and Configuration Management

## Three Areas of Hardware Requirements

- General goals for the next VVSG
- To
- reflect the latest available information
- reference applicable standards, rather than repeating or excerpting text from these standards
- use more precise and testable wording
- clearly separate requirements from testing specifications

## Electromagnetic Compatibility

- EMC requirements control how
- the environment can affect electronic voting devices (Immunity)
- electronic voting devices can affect their environment (Emission Limits)

## Electromagnetic Compatibility

- Conducted Compatibility
- Interaction with local power supply
- Radiated Compatibility
- Electrostatic discharge
- Cell phones
- Telecommunications Compatibility
- Telephone line to central tabulator

## Electromagnetic Compatibility

- 2002 VSS
- Vol. I, sections 3.2.2.4 – 3.2.2.12
- Vol. II, section 4.8
- 2005 VVSG (slightly revised from 2002)
- Vol. I, sections 4.1.2.4 – 4.1.2.12
- Vol. II, section 4.8
- Next VVSG (totally rewritten from 2005)
- Part 1, sections 6.3.4 – 6.3.6
- Part 3, sections 5.1.1 – 5.1.3

## Other Environmental

- These requirements deal with
- General build quality
- Durability
- Maintainability
- Operating temperature and humidity
- Equipment transportation and storage

## Other Environmental

- 2002 VSS
- Vol. I, sections 3.2.2, 3.3, 3.4.2, 3.4.4, 3.4.7
- Vol. II, sections 4.6, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8
- 2005 VVSG (unchanged from 2002)
- Vol. I, sections 4.1.2, 4.2, 4.3.2, 4.3.4, 4.3.7
- Vol. II, sections 4.6, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8

## Other Environmental

- Next VVSG (enhanced and slightly revised from 2005)
- New
- general build quality requirements
- durability of paper requirement
- operating humidity requirement
- Part 1, sections 6.4.3 – 6.4.7
- Part 3, sections 5.1.4 – 5.1.5

## Quality Assurance and Configuration Management

- Requirements on manufacturers to
- QA: ensure that they adhere to practices during the development, manufacture, and maintenance of voting systems that build quality into the systems
- CM: develop activities and associated practices that ensure full knowledge and control of the components of their voting systems

## Quality Assurance and Configuration Management

- 2002 VSS and 2005 VVSG
- Statements of general goals and good practices, but not specific to voting systems
- No substantive, verifiable requirements
- No references to generally accepted industry standards
- Complaints that delivered systems were sometimes not of the highest quality

## Quality Assurance and Configuration Management

- Next VVSG
- ISO 9000/9001 (QA) and ISO 10007 (CM) standards provide the framework for the requirements
- Manufacturer must deliver a well defined Quality Manual detailing how the processes and procedures required by the VVSG are being implemented

## Quality Assurance and Configuration Management

- 2002 VSS
- Vol. I, section 7 (QA), section 8 (CM)
- Vol. II, section 7
- 2005 VVSG (unchanged from 2002)
- Vol. I, section 7 (QA), section 8 (CM)
- Vol. II, section 7

## Quality Assurance and Configuration Management

- Next VVSG (totally rewritten from 2005)
- Part 1, section 6.4.2
- Part 2, chapter 2
- Part 3, section 4.4