Support for a Common Data Exchange Format Election Systems & Software IEEE Standards Working Group P1622 Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange February 8 – 9, 2011 Election Assistance Commission Office, Washington D.C.

Current State – within the United States Election Systems are certified as a whole ◦Most locales require the use of “certified” systems ◦Exchanges with the system are constructed for efficiency of the system ◦Hybrid solutions (combining pieces of different systems) are non-certified ES&S system allows for data import from external systems for inputs to the election definition ◦Excel, CDF, etc. ES&S system allows for external feeds ◦unique to the local jurisdictions and their associated publication needs ◦XML construct to allow ease of use

Current State – International ES&S has provided versions of its systems with EML imports and exports to its international clients Support for partial set of EML capabilities ◦Ballot content import to tabulation system ◦which race, candidates are on a given ballot style ◦Vote for how many ◦Ballot style to voting location ◦Cast Vote records ◦which choices were made on a given ballot ◦Vote Summary records ◦at the various reporting levels

Support for a Common Standard Due to the certification process, it is preferable to have one format for data interchange into or out from the system Any voting system vendor doing business in the United Kingdom or European Union needs to support EML EML is heading toward the ISO certification process to be recognized as the data interchange standard for election data It is better to ensure this International Standard contains the features and content that we desire for data exchange in the United States than to build a one-off