EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Jordi Puiggali
Organization : | Scytl Secure Electronic Voting
Post Date : | 9/9/2005
General Comments
Comment : | Scytl’s solution has the following general objectives: · To allow the voter to individually verify the correct treatment of her vote. • Allowing the verification that her vote is cast and recorded as she intended. • Providing assurance that the recorded vote will be counted as cast. • Making this verification process accessible to everyone, including the blind and visually impaired. · To provide redundancy through a double register of the votes. • Drastically reducing the risk of loss of votes. • Offering the possibility of an independent parallel recount of the votes. · To facilitate the audit and certification process by the election authorities. • Simplifying the audit and certification of the voting system by concentrating the critical security features in a simple and easy-to-audit device. • Enhancing the auditability of the election through the use of cryptographic tools. Scytl’s solution is based on an independent module, called the Verification Module (VM). The VM is connected to the DRE, as shown in Figure 1. The VM consists of a hardware device with a screen, an audio port, and two buttons (one to confirm and the other to reject). The VM also has basic computing capabilities that enable the execution of cryptographic software to protect every single vote.