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David Mertz

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Open Source Voting Project Posted: Aug 7, 2003 12:27 AM
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This is not primarily MY project, but it is one I feel is important, and am participlating in. A group of us, largely academics, led by Alan Dechert, are working on creating an open source computerized voting machine that, unlike most commercial versions, produces a voter verifiable paper trail. And also it will have much better security design than existing systems, in small part because of my involvement. Oh yeah... and the demo (at least) will be written in Python

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Erik Aronesty

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Re: Open Source Voting Project Posted: Nov 4, 2003 1:09 PM
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Please check out the following for some ideas:

http://securevote.documentroot.com/

And

http://lwn.net/Articles/55322/

The basics are :

1- transmit each vote, encrypted, to a distributed set of counting servers

2- each audit-server has its own public key, and each votnig-server has a certificate

3- each user gets a password or ID that can be used ti log in to any or all of the audit servers to verify the vote and that it was counted.

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