Category Archives: scratch_and_vote

A bit more brainstorming about ways to aid the end-to-end verifiability meme. Other suggestions are welcome.

• Have a forum for discussing E2E verifiable systems. For example a yahoo group or a google group. Initially I would suggest an open all-purpose forum covering both technical discussion and general advocacy and discussion.
• Have a website promoting the general idea of E2E verifiable systems – not just specific systems
• Each E2E project should have a website dedicated to it with clear descriptions of how it works intended for non-academic readers. (It should of course also include sections targeting academic readers) The Punchscan web site does very well here. But many others do not – even projects involving the same people.
  Some examples:
  • Scantegrity does not include an HTML treatment
  • I can not casually find a site describing Ron Rivest’s and Ben Adida’s scratch and vote system; The best link I can find is a Technology Review article and a PDF on his site
  • Rivest and Warren Smith’s descriptions of ThreeBallot, VAV, Twin, and variants are not written and presented in a way intended for a general audience. There is a press release and some pdfs.