We presented Scantegrity II at this year’s 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT ‘08).

The paper can be read here [PDF].

Event Photos

Photo: Me giving the talk at EVT08

Photo: Taking questions

Photo: David and Jeremy going over the slides beforehand

Open Voting Consortium and Okori Group offered a new open source voting system solution at LinuxWorld 08. According to the CNET interview:

Dechert says his system is better because it doesn’t use fancy cryptography, it uses a simple chain of custody.

This statement right here is the deal breaker. Why? I would hope it’s obvious:

A solution requiring the non-existence of the very fault-condition it attempts to solve is not a solution.

Folks, accept no substitutes. End-to-end verification: often imitated, never duplicated.