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Election Public Working Group

READ-ONLY SITE MATERIALS: Historical voting TWiki site (2015-2020) ARCHIVED from https://collaborate.nist.gov/voting/bin/view/Voting

Purpose

This working group is for the discussion and development of requirements-related information for voting systems, intended ultimately for inclusion in the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG).The focus of this working group is on requirements addressing early voting and election day activities, including setting up a polling location, processing voters, equipment operation in polling places and elsewhere, casting, counting, and tabulating votes and closing a polling location.

Objectives

  • Document the high level steps and processes necessary to administer early voting and election day activities.
  • Identify the necessary functionality of election systems needed to administer early voting and election day activities.
  • Include or upload your step-by-step procedures used in various jurisdictions to accomplish each election process.

Deliverables

List of Current Deliverables:

  • Complete first draft of election processes by December 7, 2015.
  • Complete identification of necessary system functionality to serve the election processes by January 15, 2016
  • Finalize election processes and functionality by February 10, 2016

Processes Under Consideration

Election Process Model

Voting image: Election Day Process

Election Process Functions

  • Select a Topic from the list below by clicking on it to review, edit or add content to that Topic.
  • Please only edit or add content to those categories or subcategories highlighted in RED on each Topic page.
  • If a category or subcategory is missing from one of the Topic pages below, please add it to the appropriate section on that Topic page. Any categories or subcategories added to a Topic page must also be added to the Category Sign Up Sheet in the corresponding location to allow for someone to sign up to help monitor and organize that new category or subcategory.
  • Click on the Category Sign Up Sheet below to sign up to help monitor and organize a specific category or subcategory. Each category or subcategory can have more than one individual signed up to help monitor and organize it.

Opening Polls on Early Voting Days and Election Day

Processing Voters

Voting Process

Closing Polls on Early Voting Days and Election Day

Scanning and Tabulating Vote by Mail Ballots

Category Sign Up Sheet

Logistics

Meeting Information:

The NIST Voting System Election Requirements Working Group will meet by telecon; date and time and connection details to be announced.

Next Meeting

Meeting Archive

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New Save the Date! Learn more about this public working group and how to use this TWiki page.

November 18, 2015

3:30 p.m. eastern time

TWiki page training session for the Election Working Group.

November 20, 2015

1:00 p.m. eastern time

Call-in information will be sent by email to members of this working group after 3:00 p.m. eastern time on November 19, 2015.

Officers

Chair

Robert Giles

Email: Robert.Giles [at] sos.nj.gov (Robert[dot]Giles[at]sos[dot]nj[dot]gov)

Affiliation: TGDC Member (EAC Standards Board State Representative)

Vice-Chair

Greg Riddlemoser

Email: GRiddlemoser [at] staffordcountyva.gov (GRiddlemoser[at]staffordcountyva[dot]gov)

Affiliation: TGDC Member (EAC Standards Board Local Representative)

Agency Lead

Jessica Myers

Email: jmyers [at] eac.gov (jmyers[at]eac[dot]gov)

Affiliation: Election Assistance Commission

Members

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Membership Information:

Participation in this Working Group is open to all interested parties. There are no membership fees.

  • List of mailing list members (TBD)

Latest Working Documents

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Resources

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Websites

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Election Public Working Group

Email List

Email List Name: vvsg-election

To join the list or find more information about list policies and related procedures, please visit the VVSG Working Group Lists page.

Relevant Documents

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Charter:

Definition:

Policies and Procedures:

Reference Architecture:

Work To-Date:

Technology Roadmap:

Vocabulary:

Publications:

 

ARCHIVED DOCUMENTS:

Attachment

Date

Comment

04_00463_OVS_System_Operations_Guide_EDay_Pollworkers.pdf

2016-02-03 - 22:32

1.3 System Operation Guide for PollWorkers

18th_Rep_Special_Election_Day_data.xlsx

2016-01-05 - 21:54

Texting election day data collected example

COMBINED_ED_INSTRUCTIONS_-_Gen_FINAL.pdf

2016-01-05 - 21:30

Combined Election District Instructions - General Election

California_Disability-SensitivityJanuary-2016.pdf

2016-01-28 - 01:04

California Disability Sensitivity at the Polls

California_EC_polling-place-procedures2012.pdf

2016-01-23 - 19:05

California Election Code Sections for polling place procedures

California_EC_results_reporting2012.pdf

2016-01-23 - 19:06

California Election Code Sections for results reporting requirements (2012)

California_Elections-officers-digest-2016.pdf

2016-01-23 - 19:07

California Elections Officer Digest (2016)

California_observation-rights-responsibilities.pdf

2016-01-23 - 19:08

California Election Observation Rights & Responsibilities

California_poll-worker-training-standards-final-031210.pdf

2016-01-23 - 19:08

California Poll Worker Training Standards

EO_Checklist_-2014_Gen_final_rev2.pdf

2016-01-05 - 21:32

Election Officer Checklists - General Election

EO_Manual-2014_Gen_final_rev2.pdf

2016-01-05 - 21:27

Election Officer Manual - General Election

EO_SUPPLEMENTAL__GEN_10-13-14.pdf

2016-01-05 - 21:34

Supplemental Instructions - General Election

EVS_DS200_ElectionDay.pdf

2016-01-27 - 14:28

ES&S Precinct Scanner Election Day Manual

HV-ELECTION_BASICS_HarveyCty.pdf

2016-01-19 - 19:59

Harvey County

HV-Pollbook_Cheatsheet_-_Primary_HarveyCty.pdf

2016-01-19 - 19:59

Harvey County

M100_Election_Day_Checklist_v_5_4_06_15_2012.pdf

2016-01-27 - 21:24

M100 Election Day Checklist

M650_Election_v__2_2.pdf

2016-01-27 - 21:26

M650 Election Day Checklist

M650_Frequently_Ask_Questions.pdf

2016-01-27 - 21:24

M650 FAQ

MIB_Election_Day_Procedures.pdf

2016-02-02 - 18:48

Somerset County Election Day Activities

Master_Board_Worker_Election_Day_Guide.pdf

2016-02-02 - 18:48

Somerset County Election Day Activities

Master_Board_Workers_Election_Day_Procedures.pdf

2016-02-02 - 18:48

Somerset County Election Day Activities

Masters_polling_location_checklist.pdf

2016-02-02 - 18:48

Somerset County Election Day Activities

NIST_ElectionResultsReporting-v15_DRAFT.pdf

2016-01-23 - 19:18

draft NIST SP Common Data Format for Election Results Reporting

Provisional_Ballot_Election_Day_Procedures.pdf

2016-02-02 - 18:48

Somerset County Election Day Activities

Provisional_Ballot_Statement.pdf

2016-02-02 - 18:48

Somerset County Election Day Activities

SCNJ_Election_Handbook.pdf

2015-12-04 - 15:46

Sussex County, NJ Election Programming Processes

SCNJ_Flip_Chart.pdf

2015-12-04 - 15:43

Pollworker_Guide_to_Election_Day

SCNJ_Form_100.pdf

2015-12-04 - 15:47

Sussex County, NJ Form 100

SCNJ_Pink_Sheet.pdf

2015-12-04 - 15:21

Sussex County, NJ PW Election Day Incident Report/Checklist

SCNJ_Pollworker_Handbook.pdf

2015-12-04 - 15:12

Sussex County NJ Boardworker handbook

Texting_Cart_Clk_Instr_Insp_Spec-yellow.docx

2016-01-05 - 21:47

Texting instructions for ED data collection

Texting_vote_count_instr_to_Insp.docx

2016-01-05 - 21:47

Texting instructions for ED data collection

U3200r3_TRN00_DS200_Election.pdf

2016-01-27 - 21:26

DS200 Election Day Training Manual

U3210_TRN00_iVo_Election.pdf

2016-01-27 - 21:25

iVotronic Election Day Checklist

boardworkers-manual-080912.pdf

2015-10-30 - 16:47

District Board Member Training Manual

california-vss_certification-matrixDRAFT.xlsx

2016-02-07 - 20:41

California Voting Systems Certification Matrix

 


Voting TWiki Archive (2015-2020): read-only, archived wiki site, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)


ARCHIVE SITE DESCRIPTION AND DISCLAIMER

This page, and related pages, represent archived materials (pages, documents, links, and content) that were produced and/or provided by members of public working groups engaged in collaborative activities to support the development of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) 2.0. These TWiki activities began in 2015 and continued until early 2020. During that time period, this content was hosted on a Voting TWiki site. That TWiki site was decommissioned in 2020 due to technology migration needs. The TWiki activities that generated this content ceased to operate actively through the TWiki at the time the draft VVSG 2.0 was released, in February of 2020. The historical pages and documents produced there have been archived now in read-only, static form.

  • The archived materials of this TWiki (including pages, documents, links, content) are provided for historical purposes only.
  • They are not actively maintained.
  • They are provided "as is" as a public service.
  • They represent the "work in progress" efforts of a community of volunteer members of public working groups collaborating from late 2015 to February of 2020.
  • These archived materials do not necessarily represent official or peer-reviewed NIST documents nor do they necessarily represent official views or statements of NIST.
  • Unless otherwise stated these materials should be treated as historical, pre-decisional, artifacts of public working group activities only.
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ARCHIVED VOTING TWIKI SITE MATERIALS

This wiki was a collaborative website. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these archived TWiki materials. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned in these materials. Archived material on this TWiki site is made available to interested parties for informational and research purposes. Materials were contributed by Participants with the understanding that all contributed material would be publicly available.  Contributions were made by Participants with the understanding that that no copyright or patent right shall be deemed to have been waived by such contribution or disclosure. Any data or information provided is for illustrative purposes only, and does not imply a validation of results by NIST. By selecting external links, users of these materials will be leaving NIST webspace. Links to other websites were provided because they may have information that would be of interest to readers of this TWiki. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not referenced, from this page or these materials. There may be other websites or references that are more appropriate for a particular reader's purpose.

 

Created August 28, 2020, Updated February 5, 2021