The Commission was briefed on the Memorandum of Understanding with OAS, Maintenance of Effort Update, Advisory Opinion Request AOR-09-016 and Annual Grants Report.

EAC Standards Board Virtual Meeting Room at www.eac.gov. The virtual meeting room remained open from Wednesday, September 9, 2009 to Friday, September 18, 2009. The site was available 24 hours per day during that 9-day period. The Standards Board neither took votes nor proposed resolutions during the 9-day forum of September 9 – September 18, 2009. Members posted comments about the five draft chapters of the Election Management Guidelines.

The Commission held a public meeting to consider administrative matters, receive an update about UOCAVA activities, and hear panelists discuss the July 19, 2009 NASS Resolution on Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) Grant and Payment Distinction.

Topics: VVSG Next Iteration, NIST's Role in Reseach and Standards, Resolutions

EAC hosted a discussion on ways to improve access to voting for veterans. This was part of a yearlong series of EAC discussions to prepare for the Presidential Election in November.

EAC hosted a Jan 9 roundtable to review challenges and best practices presented during the 2012 election season. The event was webcast and featured a Twitterfall.

EAC hosted a roundtable to discuss the results of grant funded work and how recent innovations in accessibility research may be applied to the future of election administration and voting systems. The event was webcast live & featured a Twitterfall.

EAC conducted a briefing for state election officials on February 10, 2011.

The IEEE Standards Working Group met at the EAC on February 8, 2011 to discuss voting systems electronic data interchange.

Reminder that the deadline to submit Testing and Certification Manual (v2) comments was Jan. 31, 2011.