Reply #18: VT: Auditor: Statewide voter checklist flawed [View All]

[Wilms]

Burlington Free Press

Auditor: Statewide voter checklist flawed

Published: Friday, October 21, 2005

by Wilson Ring
The Associated Press

MONTPELIER -- Vermont's new statewide voter checklist lacks written plans, system documentation and performance standards, and has other problems, state Auditor Randy Brock said in a report made public Thursday.

The report said the Secretary of State's Office, which is designing the system to comply with federal law, was not using accepted development methods, which could cause the system to fail.

"A system so critical to the functioning of our voter registration process warrants the use of a disciplined and robust systems development process, without which the state runs the risk that the system will not work as intended or in a secure manner," Brock said.

Secretary of State Deborah Markowitz said the designers of the system chose not to use some of the methods that Brock thought were required and officials working on the system have more than two months to get the system ready.

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http://burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051021/NEWS02/510210305/1007

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