Comment Re:End to End (Score 1) 341
Just saw your comment hit on my google feed reader. Thanks for the vote of confidence! :-)
You might want to check out Scantegrity. That's what we've been up to lately.
Submission + - Punchscan Wins Open Source Voting Competition (wired.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Punchscan emerged victorious at the open source university voting systems competition, VoComp. For their efforts, they will receive the 10,000 USD prize provided by ES&S, which has recently been named in a scandal in florida. The runner up, Prêt à Voter, gave them a good run for the prize:
'Per Ron Rivest, one of the contest's judges, the runner-up team, the Pret-a-Voter team from the University of Surrey in the UK, gave Punchscan a tough run for the first-place money until the Punchscan team dug through Pret-a-Voter's source code and found a significant security flaw in their random number generation. Oops.'
It will be interesting to see if these systems ever make it into the mainstream. Kudos to ES&S for sticking their neck out and showing their forward thinking in this area, as none of the other infamous voting machine vendors (*cough* Diebold *cough*) supported the competition.
'Per Ron Rivest, one of the contest's judges, the runner-up team, the Pret-a-Voter team from the University of Surrey in the UK, gave Punchscan a tough run for the first-place money until the Punchscan team dug through Pret-a-Voter's source code and found a significant security flaw in their random number generation. Oops.'
It will be interesting to see if these systems ever make it into the mainstream. Kudos to ES&S for sticking their neck out and showing their forward thinking in this area, as none of the other infamous voting machine vendors (*cough* Diebold *cough*) supported the competition.
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