There were certain of the original standards deemed to be just plain wrong. For example:
(84) ``The e-voting system shall maintain reliable synchronised time sources. The accuracy of the time source shall be sufficient to maintain time marks for audit trails and observations data, as well as for maintaining the time limits for registration, nomination, voting, or counting.''
As Doug Jones [14] and Rebecca Mercuri [20] have discussed elsewhere, access to clocks can be a source of security risk (for instance, they might be used to trigger a Trojan Horse, or may endanger voter anonymity). Therefore (84) is contradicted in our standards:
19) 2. ``Components' access to time sources shall be strictly limited on a `need to know' basis.''