While some publications such as the Washington Post took the draft report as an outright condemnation of electronic voting, NIST replied that the draft was for discussion purposes and would be analyzed at a meeting that concluded earlier today.
"Recent news accounts discussing the vulnerabilities of electronic voting systems contained in the report titled Requiring Software Independence in VVSG 2007: STS Recommendations for the TGDC said NIST on its Voting Technology page, "have raised the question of whether the report's recommendations represent the official position of NIST. This draft report was prepared by staff at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the request of the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) to serve as a point of discussion at its Dec. 4-5, 2006, meeting. Prepared in conjunction with the Security and Transparency Subcommittee (STS) of the TGDC, the report is a discussion draft and does not represent a consensus view or recommendation from either NIST or the TGDC."
