The March 29, 2004 issue of Newsweek magazine has an article about security for electronic voting. Among the proposals mentioned are
Rebecca Mercuri's verified voting scheme, which requires that machines print a paper ballot with the voter's choices, that the voter can then check for accuracy; David Jefferson et al's "frogs", some sort of digital storage device that can be used as a ballot. (It is not clear to me from the article how that enhances security); David Chaum's Votegrity scheme, which uses cryptographic methods to maintain ballot secrecy while also allowing voters to verify that their votes are counted correctly (see www.votegrity.com); "A similar system [to Votegrity] sold by sftware vendor VoteHere" allows voters to verify that their votes were correctly recorded using a tracking code. It's great to see that voting security is getting some attention in the popular press! Activists might consider sending letters to Newsweek. Cheers, - Jan ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
