[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 88 (Friday, May 8, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21672-21673]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-10843]


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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION


Sunshine Act Notice

AGENCY: U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Virtual Public Forum for EAC Board of Advisors 
(Amended).

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Date and Time: Monday, May 11, 2009, 9 a.m. EDT through Friday, May 15, 
2009, 9 p.m. EDT.

Place: EAC Board of Advisors Virtual Meeting Room at http://www.eac.gov. Once at the main page of EAC's Web site, viewers should 
click the link to the Board of Advisors Virtual Meeting Room. The 
virtual meeting room will open on Monday, May 11, 2009, at 9 a.m. EDT 
and will close on Friday, May 15, 2009, at 9 p.m. EDT. The site will be 
available 24 hours per day during that 5-day period.

Purpose: The EAC Board of Advisors will review and provide comment on 
Phase I of the draft Election Operations Assessment. Phase I of the 
project is an information gathering and modeling phase designed to 
create the framework for the remaining two phases of the project. The 
scope of the document and the project that created it are geared toward 
the procedures and equipment that move the ballot through the electoral 
process. The end goal of the election operations assessment is to 
create a work product that will allow the EAC to evaluate security 
risks to various types of voting systems (i.e. hand counted paper 
ballots, Precinct Based Optical Scan, or Remote Electronic Systems, 
etc.) and in order to better inform their work with future iterations 
of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. In addition, the assessment 
will allow policy makers and election officials to assess the potential 
risks to systems that they are looking to purchase in the future.
    The EAC Board of Advisors Virtual Meeting Room was established to 
enable the Board of Advisors to conduct business in an efficient manner 
in a public forum, including being able to review and discuss draft 
documents, when it is not feasible for an in-person board meeting. The 
Board of Advisors will not take any votes or propose any resolutions 
during the 5-day forum of May 11-15, 2009.
    This activity is open to the public. The public may view the 
Proceedings of this forum by visiting the eac board of advisors Virtual 
meeting room at http://www.eac.gov at any time between Monday, May 11, 
2009, 9 a.m. EDT and Friday, May 15, 2009, 9 p.m. EDT. The public also 
may view the election operations assessment, which will be posted on 
EAC's Web site beginning May 11, 2009. The public may file written 
statements to the EAC board of advisors at [email protected]. 
Data on EAC's Web site is accessible to visitors with disabilities and 
meets the requirements of section 508 of the rehabilitation act.
    This meeting will be open to the public.

Statement of Exceptional Circumstances: The May 5, 2009 notice of the 
EAC Board of Advisors Virtual Meeting inadvertently omitted the 
following important information: Notice of the special forum will not 
be published in the Federal Register 15 days prior to the dates that 
the forum will be open. Late notice was unavoidable due to the short 
timeline remaining in Phase I of the Elections Operation Assessment 
project. The timetable for the noticed forum was expedited to allow the 
EAC Board of Advisors an opportunity to review and comment on the draft 
document.

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Person to Contact for Information: Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) 
566-3100.

Gineen Bresso Beach,
Chair, U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
[FR Doc. E9-10843 Filed 5-6-09; 11:15 am]
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