[EM] March 29 Newsweek article on verifiable voting

[Jan Kok]

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