Notice: System End-of-Life Status
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The law provides a framework for the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to manage the end-of-life status of certified voting systems. This involves identifying systems that are no longer supported and used, ensuring that the EAC's certified list reflects current, reliable voting technology. The EAC conducts a review process and communicates with manufacturers to obtain information on outdated systems, guiding the removal of such systems from the active certified list while preserving documentation of these systems for historical purposes.
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Key Changes
- Identification of non-supported voting systems
- Removal of outdated systems from certified list
- Improvement in transparency and certification accuracy
Obligations
What this law requires
The EAC must conduct ongoing post-certification quality monitoring activities including field reviews, anomaly report collection, manufacturer site audits, and implementation of the End-of-Life Policy to ensure voting systems are deployed as certified and remain in compliance with the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG).
The EAC must maintain and update its certified voting systems list to reflect only those systems that are still supported and used, removing systems that are no longer deployed in any jurisdiction and no longer supported by manufacturers.
The EAC must document the end-of-life status of voting systems and preserve documentation of rescinded systems in historical archives to maintain continuity.
Manufacturers must respond to EAC requests for voluntary submission of review requests for any EAC-certified systems that are no longer deployed or supported.
Persons with knowledge of official use of systems identified on the EAC's Proposed End-of-Life Systems list must contact Jon Panek, Chief Election Technology Officer, at (202) 805-4613 or jpanek@eac.gov.