Notice of Meeting
State of Iowa
Board of Examiners
for Voting Machines and Electronic Voting Systems
Date: Monday, April 3, 2006
Time: 10:00 am
Place: Office of the Secretary of State
First Floor, Lucas State Office Building
321 East Twelfth Street, Des Moines 50319
Agenda: Examination of upgrade changes to AccuVote-TSX DRE Touch Screen with Ballot Station firmware (version 4.6.4)
The Ballot Station firmware 4.6.4 is an upgraded firmware version from previously certified version 4.6.3 in the State of Iowa. Along with some other normal fixes, the Ballot Station firmware version 4.6.4 eliminated the random screen freeze of the touch screen unit that may occur after a voter had cast their ballot. The random occurrence of this anomaly was found to occur when a voter would drag their finger from the summary page to the bottom of the page to cast their ballot. No votes would be lost, but the unit would have to be powered down and back up again to resume voting when this anomaly occurred. There are no functional changes between Ballot Station 4.6.3 to 4.6.4, and all the user documentation is the same as that of Ballot Station 4.6.3.
Ballot Station firmware version 4.6.4 with the AccuVote-TSX was tested and qualified under the 2002 FEC Voting System Standards and was issued a NASED System Number of N-1-06-22-22-002.
For Additional Information Contact:
Sandy Steinbach, Director of Elections
Office of the Secretary of State
Lucas State Office Building
Des Moines, Iowa 50319 (515) 281-5823