According to one Minnesota voter’s story:
A college student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall’s presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn’t see the humor.
Back in 2000 ...
Computer scientist and election technology analyst Avi Rubin touched on some familiar themes in an interview yesterday:
There are cryptographic techniques that can be used to achieve software independence so that even if there’s a bug in the software, ...
As explained in part 1, there are numerous ways for a voter to violate the principle of a secret ballot. In this post we discuss identifying marks (IMs). Such marks occupy a middle ground because the voter may or may not knowingly be giving away his ...
An article about the first version of Scantegrity was published in the May/June issue of IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine.
Scantegrity II will appear at EVT at the end of next month.
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).
