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| | Name : | Jordi Puiggali | Organization : | Scytl Secure Electronic Voting | Post Date : | 9/9/2005 |
| 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.
Although printers are probably the best-known voter-verifiability solution, there are
other alternative solutions that present advantages over printers in terms of security,
usability and implementability. This article introduces a list of 13 comparative factors
that can be used to evaluate and rate the different voter-verifiability solutions.
This article also describes the basic concept underlying a new voter-verifiability solution
developed by Scytl Secure Electronic Voting. This solution is based on a Verification
Module that allows voters to verify and confirm their voting options in a simple and
audited device independent from the DRE. This innovative solution (i) provides
assurance that the votes are cast and recorded as intended, (ii) simplifies the audit and
certification processes since the auditing efforts need to focus only on a simple and
easy-to-audit device, (iii) protects the integrity and anonymity of every single vote once
this has been verified by the voter, (iv) provides redundancy through a double register
of the votes, and (v) allows independent parallel vote recounts. | |
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