The New York State Board of Elections will consider the proposed "fee waiver" regulation below. It is on the agenda for discussion in the September 20, 2007 meeting. They may not have time to consider the policy during that meeting due to contentious old business, in which case the policy would be discussed at a later meeting.
The
State Board of Elections may elect to waive the fee for examination of voting systems
set forth in Section 6209.4(G) if a voting system vendor meets all of the
following:
1)
The vendor submits an application for examination fee waiver including a sworn
affidavit stating that the voting system software and documentation are offered
under an open source license (such as the Berkeley System Distribution
License) or free and open source
license (such as the General Public License), and is made available in public
distributions; and
2)
The vendor has paid the application fee set forth in Section 6209.4(F); and
3)
The application for examination fee waiver is supported by no less than three
public statements of support from organizations or individuals with
demonstrated expertise in voting systems and/or software security.
4)
Any other requirement in the Board's discretion.
The
State Board shall retain the discretion to (a) revoke any examination fee
waiver granted under this subsection, and (b) immediately order the termination
of the examination if it finds the testing demonstrates that the submission
obviously does not meet one or more of the requirements of section 7-202 of the
Election Law and Section 6209.2. et. seq. of the Codes, Rules and Regulations
of the State of New York.