The Scantegrity Voting System and its Use in the Takoma Park Elections

The Scantegrity project began with a simple question: is it possible to design a voting system offering the strong security properties of cryptographic end-to-end (E2E) election verification with the intuitive look and feel of a paper optical-scan ballot? This chapter recounts a decade-long research effort toward answering this question, from the design of Scantegrity’s precursor Punchscan, all the way to the first governmental election run by an E2E voting system.

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