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Touch Screen Machines With a Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail
AccuPoll Touch-Screen Voting Systems
http://www.accupoll.com/AccuPoll says: After the voter casts the ballot on the touch screen, the Proof of Vote is printed for the voter to review in the privacy of the voting booth. The Proof of Vote is deposited by the voter into a "ballot" box before leaving the polling place. The printed paper Proof of Vote satisfies the requirement under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 for a permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity for every ballot cast.
Avante: VOTETRAKKER?
http://www.aitechnology.com/votetrakker2/Avante says: After the voter makes their selections on the touch screen, they press the "Cast Ballot" button. A printout of their choices appears under a protective viewing window. The voter then can review the paper. They will see their selections for each contest. Also on the top they will see a header that contains a randomly generated number that does not tie the vote to their identity. Once the voter leaves the voting machine, a presence sensor sends a signal to the printer to retract the paper record into the voting machine. There is no intervention required by a poll worker.
Populex?: Digital Paper Ballot System ?
http://www.populex.com/dfb.htm
Populex says: The Digital Paper Ballot System prints a paper ballot card. This ballot card is the official ballot. Each ballot contains a bar code that is scanned to reliably record and count the votes on election day. The same ballot card is the permanent paper record that must be available for manual audits and recounts as required by the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
TruVote Voter Validation System
TruVote says: After casting a ballot on the touch screen DRE, a printed copy of the ballot becomes available for the voter to view through a protective window. Additionally, as an option, each voter can receive a paper receipt with a verification number to independently ascertain that his or her ballot was, in fact, received, recorded, and counted. This is accomplished by calling a toll-free number, accessing a Web site, or viewing the appropriate official public document after the election.
Optical Scan Machines With Accessibility Features
Vogue Election Systems: Automark
http://www.vogueelection.com/products_automark.htmlVogue says: The AutoMark is a ballot marking system designed to provide privacy and accessibility to voters who are blind, vision-impaired, or have a disability or condition that would make it difficult or impossible to mark a ballot in the usual way. In addition, it provides language assistance to voters who are more comfortable speaking an alternative language or who have reading difficulties. Voters insert their standard optically scanned ballot--punch-card width or standard page width--into the slot, and the AutoMark reads the ballot style. There's no need for a special ballot. Voters can use the touch screen to scroll through the options and make their selections. Then the AutoMark prints the selections onto the ballot, and the ballot is returned to the voter to be cast in the regular fashion.
Computerized Product With Open Source Code
Open Voting Consortium (OVC) EVM2003
http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/
OVC says: The Open Voting Consortium (OVC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development, maintenance, and delivery of an open voting system for use in public elections. We are currently developing free voting software to run on very inexpensive PC hardware. The OVC voting system will accommodate different languages and scoring methods, as well as voters with special needs.
Products With a Cryptographic Voter-Verifiable Audit Trail
VoteHere VHTi?
VoteHere says: This technology provides election verification for electronic voting machines. Based on patent-pending cryptographic protocols, VHTi is a licensable application-programming interface (API) that can be integrated into any electronic voting machine.
VoteHere, Inc. has offered to disclose the details of its cryptographic voter- verification technology for public review. We at verifiedvoting.org believe that no voting system can be considered trustworthy unless the basis for that trust is publicly disclosed. Current voting system designs are hidden behind a veil of secrecy. Even the results of evaluations by independent testing laboratories are confidential.
To encourage review of this technology, we are providing links to the technical information on VoteHere's site, and we're providing a thread in our forum for discussing the technology. It is our hope that VoteHere's technology will be scrutinized much more carefully than voting systems currently in use, so that the strengths and weaknesses can be thoroughly understood.
Download VoteHere Documentation Here
Vreceipt Technology
David Chaum says: he has developed a technology that provides a voter-verified audit trail using cryptography. For a complete description, refer to http://www.voterverifiable.com/article.pdf.