I recently created a poster about Scantegrity that may be of interest to those wishing to learn more about it.
The poster won first place at a competition at the annual UMBC CSEE department research day.
I upgraded the blog recently, and the feed URL went from:
http://punchscan.org/blog/?feed=rss2
To
http://punchscan.org/blog/feed/
This caused an RSS feed error on the front page. It is fixed now. This will probably break everyone’s RSS feed reader ...
In the cryptographer’s panel discussion last month at RSA 2008, Ron Rivest took the opportunity to relate his recent work in voting and announced his collaboration with David Chaum and the Punchscan team in an upcoming paper presenting Scantegrity II ...
Michael Shamos of Carnegie Mellon had this to say today in an interview with cnet:
The fundamental difficulty with paper trails is that they’re ridiculously kludgey. The problem is that once you mandate paper trails, it cuts off research. There would be ...
Punchscan is the first vote capture system to offer fully end-to-end (E2E) verifiability of election results.
Punchscan moves beyond ordinary paper audit trails offering a far more robust and available way for voters to become involved in the election oversight process.
Election Day at the University of Ottawa Punchscan runs the GSAED Election [More Details]
Punchscan Voting in a Nutshell
Voter experience: casting and checking your vote in a Punchscan election is easy! [View]
Punchscan on a sheet: see the Punchscan election process summarized on a single printable sheet of paper. [PDF] [PNG]
What is E2E, and why is it Important?
End-to-end cryptographic independent verification, or E2E, is a mechanism built into an election
that allows voters to take a piece of the ballot home with them as a receipt. This receipt does not
allow voters to prove to others how they voted, but it does permit them to:
Verify that they have properly indicated their votes to election
officials (cast-as-intended).
Verify with extremely high assurance that all votes were counted
properly (counted-as-cast).
Voters can check that their vote actually made it to the tally, and that the election was conducted fairly.
Punchscan is an international open-source project headed by esteemed cryptographer David Chaum and includes researchers from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC), George Washington University (GWU), University of Ottawa (UO) and University of Waterloo (UW).
