Background
The entire TTV Voting System is comprised of the dedicated devices. The Device Manager is the component of the overall system that manages all other system devices, using election-specific data and information.
Election-specific data from the TTV Ballot Design Studio is supplied to the Device Manager as its input for its operation during a specific election cycle. In fact, the Device Manager supplies all the information required by the TTV Voting System for an election cycle.
The Device Manager is a special-purpose, non-networked device, which like all the devices, runs on existing PC hardware (but without using any software or data stored on the PC), booting from a write-once media such as CD-ROM disk. Once launched, the Device Manager obtains its input from another such medium (disk), created by another computer, interacting with the Ballot Design Studio to download the requisite information and “burn” it to disk. The Device Manager has no electronic connection to other systems because it is non-networked. Of course, operation does rely on a manual means (as just described) of transferring data from the TTV Election Data Management services, as a step towards assured integrity.
The Device Manager’s principal function is to create “boot images,” on write-once media (e.g., CD-ROM disk), for each of the other components of the TTV Voting System. Each of these boot images contains the software for the specific component (which is fixed, not changing between elections), and the election-specific data
and configurations for each device. For example, the two ballot counting devices’ configuration includes data that defines where on a marked paper ballot image the ballot counting software should look for marks, and what each mark means in terms of contest and selection.
The Device Manager is intended to be operated in a jurisdiction’s Elections Office, and used as part of the officials’ preparation for an election as a “best practices” implementation.
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