[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 17, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 39065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-3483]


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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION


Sunshine Act Notice

AGENCY: United States Election Assistance Commission.

ACTION: Notice of rescheduled plenary teleconference meeting for the 
Technical Guidelines Development Committee.

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DATE AND TIME: Friday August 17, 2007, 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 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 July 30, 2007.

SUMMARY: The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (the 
``Development Committee'') has rescheduled a plenary teleconference 
meeting for August 17, 2007. This meeting date serves as a rescheduling 
of the July 3, 2007 plenary teleconference that was cancelled. 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 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) 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 a final draft of recommendations for the next iteration of 
voluntary voting system guidelines at the August 17, 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. 07-3483 Filed 7-13-07; 11:10 am]
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