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To: posthumousone who wrote (265684)	8/2/2010 4:34:21 AM
From: grusum	Respond to of 306849

thanks to you and others for your comments on verifying votes. here's a site that claims it could solve the problem with an electronic voting machine that uses a simple touch screen. ----- The unique feature of this system is that the error detection is decoupled from the software, such that it is impossible for the software or hardware to make an error (change a vote) that is not detected. It has been said that it is impossible to design an electronic voting system that is verifiable, and that we have to regress back to a paper based system. In fact, the only truly verifiable system is an electronic one, because the paper system requires human action and human action is not verifiable and prone to error. True verification can only occur if each voter verifies their vote. This white paper introduces a system design for a simple Electronic Verifiable Internet based Voting System. Key Attributes of System: 1. Voter privacy is protected. 2. Election Data is made Public. 3. Each Voter is responsible for verifying their ballot. 4. Since data is public, anyone can verify the results. 5. Data is tamper proof. 6. All Software is open source. Process: 1. Each voter registers with the registrar of voters, and receives a voter identification number and a pin. a. Voter privacy is protected. Only the registrar of voters knows the Voter number and associated voter information. 2. When the voter cast a ballot, a ballot number and printout of the ballot is received. a. Only the voter and the registrar of voters have access to the association between voter and ballot number. b. A data base is compiled which contains the ballot numbers and associated ballots. c. The data base contains multiple check sums, as well as election totals, so that any modification of the data base will be detected. The advantage of using election totals as checksums is that the checksum can not be changed without affecting election results. 3. This data base, checksums, and election totals are posted on the internet. 4. Each voter is responsible for verifying that their vote was recorded correctly. This could be accomplished over the internet. a. A software package with open source shall be available to lookup the voter’s ballot in the database by the ballot number and verify checksums, and election totals. 5. Independent verification of election results can be accomplished by anyone with internet access. a. A software package with open source shall be available to verify the database checksums and election totals. 6. Election results are verified at the precinct level by the voters. Anyone with internet access can verify complete election results by summing all of the public data from all of the precincts. Conclusion: If every voter verifies their vote, then, if a single vote is changed it will be detected. It does not matter how the vote was changed. A system has to be in place to allow voters to report errors, and investigate the reason for each error. verifyourvote.org