[EM] March 29 Newsweek article on verifiable voting

[Ernest Prabhakar]

Hi all,

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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