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The Federal Election Commission (FEC) National Clearinghouse on Election Administration (NCEA) comprehensive report on voting system standards attempts to develop standards for: 1. environment, 2. recording, 3. reporting, and 4. implementation/conversion subsystems. The report cited examples of voting system failures as well as the lack of a formal reporting system for documenting these failures. Computerized election systems have raised many questions about security, verification, and public response. Important requirements for these systems are: 1. voter privacy, 2. security, 3. adherence to the rules for the particular type of election being held, 4. error correction, and 5. zero count verification before the election. Questions also remain over mixing machines from different vendors within the system. The effect of the public's perception of these problems and their solutions is also an important concern as these issues and others continue to be explored.