[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 39 (Wednesday, February 28, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 8977]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-918]


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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION


Sunshine Act Meeting Notice

AGENCY: Election Assistance Commission.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting for the Technical Guidelines 
Development Committee.

Date and Time: Thursday, March 22, 2007, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST; 
Friday, March 23, 2007, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. EST.

Place: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Building 101, Employees Lounge, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-
8900.

Status: The meeting will be open to the public. There is no fee to 
attend, but, due to security requirements, advance registration is 
required. Registration and additional meeting information will be 
available at http://www.vote.nist.gov by March 1, 2007. This meeting 
will be Web cast.

Summary: The Technical guidelines Development Committee (the 
``Development Committee'') has scheduled a plenary meeting for March 
22nd and 23rd, 2007. The Committee was established in 2004 to act in 
the public interest to assist the Executive Director of the U.S. 
Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in the development of voluntary 
voting system guidelines. The Development Committee has held seven 
previous meetings. The proceedings of these plenary sessions are 
available at http://vote.nist.gov. The purpose of the eighth meeting of 
the Development Committee will be to review and approve a draft of 
recommendations for future voluntary voting system guidelines to the 
EAC. The draft recommendations respond to tasks defined in resolutions 
passed at the previous Technical Guideline Development Committee 
meetings.

Supplementary Information: The Technical Guidelines Development 
Committee (the ``Development Committee'') has scheduled a plenary 
meeting for March 22nd and 23rd, 2007. The committee was established 
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 15361, to act in the public interest to assist 
the Executive Director of the Election Assistance Commission in the 
development of the voluntary voting system guidelines. The Technical 
Guidelines Development Committee held their first plenary meeting on 
July 9, 2004. At this meeting, the Development Committee agreed to a 
resolution forming three working groups: (1) Human Factors & Privacy; 
(2) Security & Transparency; and (3) Core Requirements & Testing to 
gather information and review preliminary reports on issues pertinent 
to voluntary voting standard recommendations. At subsequent plenary 
sessions, additional resolutions were debated and adopted by the TGDC. 
The resolutions define technical work tasks for NIST that assist the 
TGDC in developing recommendations for voluntary voting system 
guidelines. The Development Committee approved initial recommendations 
for voluntary voting system guidelines at the April 20th & 21st, 2005 
meeting. The recommendations were formally delivered to the EAC in May 
2005 for their review. In September of 2005, the Development Committee 
began review of preliminary technical reports for the next iteration of 
voluntary voting system guidelines. The Committee will review and 
debate draft recommendations for the next iteration of voluntary voting 
system guidelines at the March 22nd and 23rd, 2007 meeting.

Contact Information: Allan Eustis 301-975-5099. If a member of the 
public would like to submit comments concerning the Committee's affairs 
at any time before or after the meeting, written comments should be 
addressed to the contact person indicated above, c/o NIST, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Mail Stop 8970, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 or to [email protected].

Thomas R. Wilkey,
Executive Director, U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
[FR Doc. 07-918 Filed 2-26-07; 11:48 am]
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