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Name :   Jordi Puiggali
Organization :   Scytl Secure Electronic Voting
Post Date :   9/9/2005

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Section :  6.8
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Comment :  Conclusions
The presence of DREs in polling places in the United States has increased
considerably because of the many advantages that they offer over other voting
systems in terms of usability, flexibility and accessibility. The complexity of DREs
makes the audit and certification process by election authorities difficult and unreliable.
As a result, legislators and election authorities are currently looking for solutions to provide voter-verifiability to DREs in order to increase public’s confidence in DRE
voting.
A number of alternative solutions exist to provide DREs with voter-verifiability. Although
the use of printed paper ballots (VVPAT) is the best-known solution, it has some
drawbacks and limitations. Most notably, VVPAT solutions can be an effective method
to guarantee that votes are cast as voters intended but do not provide sufficient
assurance that those votes will be counted as they were cast. Simple solutions to this
problem, e.g., digitally signing the printed paper ballots, introduce new unacceptable
security risks.