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 : | This article presents an innovative solution developed by Scytl Secure Electronic Voting to complement and improve VVPAT solutions, providing them with enhanced security and accessibility. Scytl’s solution is based on a simple Audit Module, which can be easily integrated with any DRE and with any VVPAT solution. This Audit Module acts as a neutral auditing element, which monitors the verification process and provides its own digital signature on both printed paper ballots and digital votes, thus assuring that both representations of the same vote will coincide and that one can replace the other in case of loss or elimination (e.g., physical elimination of the printer paper ballot). The addition of the Audit Module to DRE-VVPAT systems allows (i) to prevent the addition of bogus ballots without running the risk of invalidating valid votes as a result of the accidental or voluntary generation of incorrect digital signatures on the printed paper ballots, (ii) to prevent the elimination or alteration of valid votes by providing an accurate recovery mechanism, (iii) to provide election authorities with accurate mechanisms to determine the correct results in case of discrepancies between the results from the DRE and the count of paper votes, and (iv) to provide accessibility to the VVPAT solution for blind and visually impaired voters.