Computer Association Study Group Issues Voter Registration Guidelines to Assure Privacy and Accuracy.

AScribe Law News Service, February, 2006

Byline: Association for Computing Machinery

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of computer security and voting experts has issued recommendations to ensure that electronic records of information submitted by citizens registering to vote are accurate, private, and secure. In a report commissioned by the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) U.S. Public Policy Committee (USACM), state and local election officials now have nearly 100 high-level guidelines designed to help states comply with Federal laws that require computerized statewide electronic databases to be operational by January 1, 2006.

"These guidelines will enable the more than 20 states that have not yet met these federal deadlines to avoid Election Day problems," said...

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