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 : | Scytl Secure Electronic Voting, a worldwide leader in the development of secure electronic voting solutions, has recently released a new patent-pending solution that drastically improves the security of VVPAT solutions and provides them with accessibility. Scytl’s solution has the following general objectives: · To provide VVPAT solutions with mechanisms to assure that votes will be counted as they were cast. o Preventing the addition of bogus votes and the alteration of valid votes, but without running the risk of invalidating valid votes as a result of the accidental or voluntary generation of incorrect digital signatures. o Preventing the elimination of valid votes (e.g., by physically eliminating the paper record) by providing an accurate recovery mechanism. · To provide election authorities with accurate mechanism to determine the correct results in case of discrepancies between the results from the DRE and the count of paper votes. · To improve the accessibility of the VVPAT solutions. o Providing blind and visually impaired voters with the possibility to individually verify that their votes are cast and recorded as they intended without the assistance from a third party.