On Apr 3, 2004, at 11:45 PM, Jan Kok wrote:
David Chaum's Votegrity scheme, which uses cryptographic methods tomaintain
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.
Has anyone seen/analyzed VoteHere's standards and implementation?
http://www.votehere.net/about.htm
Rigorous Standards for E-Voting
In addition to creating secure election technology, VoteHere has also developed E-voting System Standards to be used as a building block for the Federal Election Commission and other standard setting bodies such as the UK Electoral Commission, OASIS, and the UK National Forum for Internet and Democracy.
These standards will ensure that any new voting system meets the critical factors of fairness, accuracy, privacy, and verifiability - all critical to the integrity of the election.
My brother's a financial wiz, and is looking at investing in some e-voting software, so I'm trying to figure out if any of them are really technically rigorous. :-) VoteHere doesn't seem to do Open Source, but otherwise they -seem- to be making all the right sounds.
-- Ernie P.
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