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

Section Comments
Section :  6.8
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Comment :  Scytl Secure Electronic Voting, a worldwide leader in the development of secure
electronic voting solutions, has recently released a new patent-pending solution that
drastically improves the security of VVPAT solutions and provides them with
accessibility. Scytl’s solution has the following general objectives:
· To provide VVPAT solutions with mechanisms to assure that votes will be
counted as they were cast.
o Preventing the addition of bogus votes and the alteration of valid votes,
but without running the risk of invalidating valid votes as a result of the
accidental or voluntary generation of incorrect digital signatures.
o Preventing the elimination of valid votes (e.g., by physically eliminating
the paper record) by providing an accurate recovery mechanism.
· To provide election authorities with accurate mechanism to determine the
correct results in case of discrepancies between the results from the DRE and
the count of paper votes.
· To improve the accessibility of the VVPAT solutions.
o Providing blind and visually impaired voters with the possibility to
individually verify that their votes are cast and recorded as they intended
without the assistance from a third party.