The U.S. Election Assistance Commision (EAC) lifted the suspension of the federal accreditation of SysTest Labs Incorporated, allowing the lab to resume testing as an accredited EAC Voting System Test Laboratory (VSTL). This action came after NIST's National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) reinstated SysTest's accreditation in response to SysTest's correcting nonconformities identified during a NVLAP on-site assessment visit in March 2008, findings from the EAC, and observations made during an October 2008 monitoring visit.
This now allows the continuation of testing the optical scanning voting systems for New York State.
In New York City, we are looking at the ImageCast from Sequoia and the DS-200 / AutoMark BMD from Elections Systems & Software (ES&S). Public viewing in the five boroughs and a hearing was completed on March 4. The next meeting of the Board of Elections is March 17.
Michael H. Drucker
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