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 : | Conclusions The presence of DREs in polling places in the United States has increased considerably because of the many advantages that they offer over other voting systems in terms of usability, flexibility and accessibility. The complexity of DREs makes the audit and certification process by election authorities difficult and unreliable. As a result, legislators and election authorities are currently looking for solutions to provide voter-verifiability to DREs in order to increase public’s confidence in DRE voting. A number of alternative solutions exist to provide DREs with voter-verifiability. Although the use of printed paper ballots (VVPAT) is the best-known solution, it has some drawbacks and limitations. Most notably, VVPAT solutions can be an effective method to guarantee that votes are cast as voters intended but do not provide sufficient assurance that those votes will be counted as they were cast. Simple solutions to this problem, e.g., digitally signing the printed paper ballots, introduce new unacceptable security risks.