trustworthy e-voting

2009-Mar-09, Monday 12:07 am
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At last?

Ben Adida (Harvard University) has released a system that allows 1) an individual user to confirm their vote, and 2) the public to confirm a tally.  Any tampering would become immediately obvious.  (It does not address the issue of voter coercion.)  The source code is even released under a Creative Commons license.  It's called "Helios".  I'm hoping to hear some good reviews of it in future weeks.

source code:  http://github.com/benadida/helios/tree/master
pseudo-code specifications:  http://www.heliosvoting.org/static/docs/verification-specs.html
Usenix Security 2008 paper:  http://www.usenix.org/events/sec08/tech/full_papers/adida/adida.pdf

I'd be thrilled to participate in this kind of e-voting.  I dislike proprietary voting systems (e.g. Diebold) with closed-door reviews.  I want elections to be individually private but collectively very public.

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