My commentary is that the history of HAVA is that it has contracted based on political connections to Chris Dodd, Joe Manchin and extablishment others. They sub-contract to the cheapest bidder ... guess who.
So far, the contractors have only shown interest in the money, not in quality IT. In GA Gov Kemp made Gary Cooley the scapegoat. But the security breach was built by incompetents who knew neither US election law and customs, nor IT.
now they are drooling over more money.
I am opposed to electronic ballots in any form whatsoever, and I have always pushed and will always push for physical biometricaly verifiable vote ballots.
Let there be purple thumbs or DNA samples.