Archive for August, 2008

It ain’t easy being green

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

The original Scantegrity I article appeared in the May/June edition of IEEE Security and Privacy magazine.

We noticed at the time that Scantegrity II co-author Ron Rivest is referenced in the cover art as a candidate on the DRE touch-screen menu.

More recently we also noticed that co-author Jeremy Clark was depicted as the voter :-)

Scantegrity on MSN

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

MSN Tech & Gadgets mentions Scantegrity in an article titled “Click Here For President: The Future of Voting in America”:

Voters make their mark alongside their choice for president with a special pen — and the pen reveals a randomized code. When voters look up the serial number of their ballot online, they can make sure the reported code matches up with the code they uncovered.

The article only mentions GWU and not all the language is crystal clear. I don’t endorse everything said (and that goes for any article), but it is worth a read.

Scantegrity in MIT Technology Review

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

The MIT Technology Review has a short article about Scantegrity II:

Even optical scanners can misread stray marks, however, and any voting machine can be tampered with after the fact. But a cryptographic system developed under the leadership of electronic-cash pioneer David Chaum can guarantee that every vote cast using an optical scanner is correctly recorded.

Additionally MSN Tech & Gadgets mentions Scantegrity II (though misstates our academic affiliations)