EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Jordi Puiggali
Organization : | Scytl Secure Electronic Voting
Post Date : | 9/9/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8
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Comment : | The main drawbacks of current VVPAT solutions are: · VVPAT solutions allow voters to verify that votes are cast as they intended but do not provide sufficient assurance that the votes will be counted as they were cast. Paper records, once verified by voters, are actually vulnerable to a number of attacks, including (i) the addition of bogus votes (also known as “ballot stuffing”), (ii) the elimination of valid votes, and/or (iii) the alteration of valid votes. · VVPAT solutions do not provide election authorities with accurate mechanisms to determine the correct result in case of discrepancies between the results provided by the count of electronic votes in the DRE and the count of paper votes. · VVPAT solutions are based on printed paper ballots and, therefore, they are not accessible for blind or visually impaired voters.