1. UOCAVA Electronic Blank Ballot Delivery Use Case
John P. Wack
National Institute of Standards and Technology

2. FVAP Federal Voting Assistance Program, branch of the DOD
Deals with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)
Aims to make military participation in Federal elections commensurate with rest of US
Faces significant logistical challenges in getting ballots sent on time and delivered to correct addresses for overseas military and then returned successfully

3. FVAP Plans
Planning on electronic blank ballot distribution (BBD) systems for 2012 Federal elections
Voter inputs ID information and receives an electronic ballot
Voter may print and fill out or fill out on-line and then print
Voter mails back paper ballot via postal mail

4. FVAP Needs
FVAP needs a CDF to give to participating states by early Summer, 2011
CDF will need to express
Election jurisdiction data
Ballot definition data
Voter registration data
List of parties for the election
Election rules
Election display rules
Ballot return data

5. BBD Issues
Some states will need to export data into a CDF to give to FVAP so it can build pre-canned ballots (or they may build them)
Other states may be able to interact with a BBD system that could build ballots “on the fly”
Both scenarios require a robust CDF that manufacturers can implement cleanly

6. UOCAVA BBD Use Case
NIST is developing a use case to describe the scenario, data, and XML schemas for FVAP BBD needs
NIST will deliver by early Summer 2011
Use case scenario document
XML schemas
As a possibility,
UML model
A reference implementation

7. Current Status Use Case scenario document out for review on P1622 list
NIST working with OASIS and using EML as basis for schema development
FVAP to involve potential vendors, relevant election officials, and identify additional needs

8. Discussion