[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 75 (Thursday, April 19, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 19703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-1982]


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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION


Sunshine Act Meeting Notice

AGENCY: United States Election Assistance Commission.

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

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Date and Time: Monday, May 21, 2007, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST. Tuesday, 
May 22, 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: This 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 May 1, 2007. This meeting will 
be Web cast.
SUMMARY: The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (the 
``Development Committee'') has scheduled a plenary meeting for May 21st 
and 22nd, 2007. The Development 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 eight 
previous meetings. The proceedings of these plenary sessions are 
available at http://vote.nist.gov. The purpose of the ninth meeting of 
the Development Committee will be to review and approve a revised 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 Development Committee meetings as well as a 
review of an initial draft of recommendations presented at the March 
2007 plenary meeting.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Technical Guidelines Development 
Committee (the ``Development Committee'') has scheduled a plenary 
meeting for May 21st and 22nd, 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, debate 
and approve draft recommendations for the next iteration of voluntary 
voting system guidelines at the May 21st and 22nd, 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. 07-1982 Filed 4-17-07; 3:45 pm]
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