EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Jordi Puiggali
Organization : | Scytl Secure Electronic Voting
Post Date : | 9/9/2005
General Comments
Comment : | Comparative factors related to security and voter-verifiability: 1. Voter-verifiability: Possibility for the voter to verify the correct recording of her vote (“vote cast as intended”). 2. Vote integrity: Prevention of vote manipulation from the moment the vote is cast until it is counted (“vote counted as cast”). 3. Redundancy: Existence of an independent back-up of the votes which enables parallel recounts. 4. Auditing of election results: Possibility of third-party audits of the results. 5. Security of the data interchanged between the DRE and the voter-verifiability solution: Confidentiality and integrity of the data (generally votes) interchanged between both systems. 6. Voter privacy: Assurance that the voter’s choices will remain totally anonymous. Comparative factors related to the ease of use by voters: 7. Usability: Ease of use of the voter-verifiability solution by average voters. 8. Accessibility: Possibility of using the voter-verifiability solution by voters with disabilities. 9. Time-to-verify: Average extra time required by the voter to complete the verification process at the polling place.