VVSG Timeline
- FEC adopts the federal government’s first set of voting system standards in 1990. Federal government does not test voting equipment against these standards
- The National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) begins testing voting equipment against the 1990 standards; NASED, a non-governmental entity, voluntarily offers the service to the states
- In 2002, FEC updates 1990 standards
- NASED begins testing voting systems against the 2002 standards
- The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) creates the EAC
- HAVA transfers the responsibility of developing voting system standards from the FEC to the EAC
- HAVA requires EAC to set up the federal government’s first program to test voting equipment against the federal standards
- HAVA renames the voting system standards, listing them as the voluntary voting system guidelines (VVSG)
- NASED terminates its voting system testing program in July 2006
- EAC launches full testing and certification program in January 2007
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