[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 109 (Thursday, June 7, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 31569]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-2839]


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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION


Sunshine Act Notice

AGENCY: United States Election Assistance Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Plenary Teleconference Meeting for the Technical 
Guidelines Development Committee.

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Date and Time: Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT.

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

Status: This teleconference meeting will be Web cast to the public. 
Additional meeting information and URL Web link for the event will be 
available at http://vote.nist.gov. by June 19, 2007.
SUMMARY: The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (the 
``Development Committee'') has scheduled a plenary teleconference 
meeting for July 3, 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 Comission (EAC) in the development of 
voluntary voting system guidelines. The Development Committee has held 
nine previous plenary meetings. The proceedings of these plenary 
sessions are available at http://vote.nist.gov. The purpose of the 
tenth meeting of the Development Committee will be to review and 
approve a final 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 a complete draft of 
recommendations presented at the May 2007 plenary meeting.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Technical Guidelines Development 
Committee (the ``Development Committee'') has scheduled a plenary 
teleconference meeting for July 3, 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) Care 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 recommendation 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 a final draft of recommendations of the next iteration of 
voluntary voting system guidelines at the July 3, 2007 teleconference 
meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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. 07-2839 Filed 6-4-07; 4:15 pm]
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