Does Ciber Testing Affect Wisconsin?

The story in the New York Times that Ciber Labs has been barred from certifying election equipment under the EAC interim certification rules raises the question above in the title:

Does Ciber (non) Testing Affect Wisconsin?

The answer is yes, but it is too early to tell how and to what extent. Here are the systems affected:

The following is from the Voting Equipment page found on the WI SEB web site at:

Ciber Labs tested the following elements of systems now approved for use in Wisconsin.

• Unity Election Management Suite, version 2.4.3 of the ES&S system approved under the NASED # N-1-02-21-21-002
• Unity Election Management Suite, version 3.0.1.0 of the ES&S system approved under the NASED # N-1-02-21-21-005
• Unity Election Management Suite, version 2.5 of the ES&S system approved under the NASED # N-1-16-22-22-001
• Unity Election Management Suite, version 3.0 of the ES&S system approved under the NASED # N-1-16-22-22-001
• Global Elections Management System (GEMS) software, version 1.18.24 of the Diebold Election Systems Inc. system approved under the NASED # N-1-06-22-22-001
• WinEDS Election Management software version 3.1.012 of the system from Sequoia Voting Systems approved under the NASED # N-1-07-22-22-002

Ciber Labs tested no element of the following systems now approved for use in Wisconsin

• Populex Digital Paper Ballot Voting System, version 2.3. All elements of the system were tested by SysTest, LLC. On an unrelated note apparently, no NASED number has been issued yet for this system as required for this system by Wisconsin regulations.
• Vote-PAD. Since Vote-PAD is not electronic it outside of the scope of the certification process for electronic systems.

It is unknown which, if any, elements Ciber Labs tested for the following system now approved for use in Wisconsin

• VotWare DRE Voting System: firmware release version 5.0.4.1; Ballot Builder v. 5.0.4.1g; Surevote DRE v.5.0.4.1g; EMSTools v.5.0.4.1h, and related system components. Apparently, no NASED number has been issued yet for this system as required for this system by Wisconsin regulations.

Ciber SHOULD have tested the following PC application, but instead the State of Wisconsin accepted a software test report from Wylie, the NASED hardware test lab.

• VC Programmer 4.6.1 of the Diebold Election Systems Inc. system approved under the NASED # N-1-06-22-22-001