U.S. Election Assistance Commission

This meeting will be webcast live on the EAC Web site. See the agenda and notice for additional information.

EAC certified the OpenElect 1.0 voting system by Unisyn Voting Solutions, an optical-scan device with central count and precinct-level count equipment, to the 2005 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. It is the fourth voting system to achieve federal certification under the EAC Voting System Testing and Certification Program. Read more

EAC seeks peer reviewers to help review the commission's competitive grant applications. For more information about these paid, temporary opportunities, go here.

Chair Beach writes about her trip to Alabama, where she learned about state and local election officials' efforts to serve military and overseas voters and toured a federally-accredited voting system test lab. Read more

EAC announces the appointment of four new technical and scientific experts to its Technical Guidelines Development Committee, which is charged under the Help America Vote Act with assisting EAC in developing federal voluntary voting system guidelines that are used to test and certify voting systems. Read more