To provide auditability and proactively address the increasing difficulty of protecting against all prospective threats, the TGDC directs STS to write requirements for the next version of the VVSG requiring the next generation of voting systems to be software independent.
To ensure accountability and proactively counter the escalating threat of vulnerabilities, the TGDC tasks STS with creating requirements for the upcoming VVSG edition, which mandates that the subsequent voting system generation be decoupled from software.