Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy
On November 3, 2009, voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, cast ballots for the mayor and city council members using the Scantegrity II voting system—the first time any end-to-end (E2E) voting system with ballot privacy has been used in a binding governmental election. This case study describes the...
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| author | Carback, Richard T. Chaum, David Clark, Jeremy Conway, John Essex, Aleksander Herrnson, Paul S. Mayberry, Travis Popoveniuc, Stefan Rivest, Ronald L. Shen, Emily (Emily Huei-Yi) Sherman, Alan T. Vora, Poorvi L. |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Carback, Richard T. Chaum, David Clark, Jeremy Conway, John Essex, Aleksander Herrnson, Paul S. Mayberry, Travis Popoveniuc, Stefan Rivest, Ronald L. Shen, Emily (Emily Huei-Yi) Sherman, Alan T. Vora, Poorvi L. |
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| description | On November 3, 2009, voters in Takoma Park, Maryland,
cast ballots for the mayor and city council members
using the Scantegrity II voting system—the first time
any end-to-end (E2E) voting system with ballot privacy
has been used in a binding governmental election. This
case study describes the various efforts that went into
the election—including the improved design and implementation
of the voting system, streamlined procedures,
agreements with the city, and assessments of the experiences
of voters and poll workers.
The election, with 1728 voters from six wards, involved
paper ballots with invisible-ink confirmation
codes, instant-runoff voting with write-ins, early and
absentee (mail-in) voting, dual-language ballots, provisional
ballots, privacy sleeves, any-which-way scanning
with parallel conventional desktop scanners, end-to-end
verifiability based on optional web-based voter verification
of votes cast, a full hand recount, thresholded authorities,
three independent outside auditors, fully-disclosed
software, and exit surveys for voters and pollworkers.
Despite some glitches, the use of Scantegrity II was
a success, demonstrating that E2E cryptographic voting
systems can be effectively used and accepted by the general public. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/631432022-09-30T13:43:55Z Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy Carback, Richard T. Chaum, David Clark, Jeremy Conway, John Essex, Aleksander Herrnson, Paul S. Mayberry, Travis Popoveniuc, Stefan Rivest, Ronald L. Shen, Emily (Emily Huei-Yi) Sherman, Alan T. Vora, Poorvi L. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Rivest, Ronald L. Rivest, Ronald L. Shen, Emily Huei-Yi On November 3, 2009, voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, cast ballots for the mayor and city council members using the Scantegrity II voting system—the first time any end-to-end (E2E) voting system with ballot privacy has been used in a binding governmental election. This case study describes the various efforts that went into the election—including the improved design and implementation of the voting system, streamlined procedures, agreements with the city, and assessments of the experiences of voters and poll workers. The election, with 1728 voters from six wards, involved paper ballots with invisible-ink confirmation codes, instant-runoff voting with write-ins, early and absentee (mail-in) voting, dual-language ballots, provisional ballots, privacy sleeves, any-which-way scanning with parallel conventional desktop scanners, end-to-end verifiability based on optional web-based voter verification of votes cast, a full hand recount, thresholded authorities, three independent outside auditors, fully-disclosed software, and exit surveys for voters and pollworkers. Despite some glitches, the use of Scantegrity II was a success, demonstrating that E2E cryptographic voting systems can be effectively used and accepted by the general public. United States. Dept. of Defense (IASP grant H98230-08-1-0334) United States. Dept. of Defense (IASP grant H98230-09-1-0404) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant no. CNS 0831149) 2011-05-31T17:34:11Z 2011-05-31T17:34:11Z 2010-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63143 Carback, Richard et al. "Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy" Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Security Symposium, 2010, Washington, D.C., Aug. 11-13, 2010. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7105-3690 en_US http://www.usenix.org/events/sec10/tech/full_papers/Carback.pdf UNIX Security Symposium. Proceedings 19th USENIX Security Symposium, 2010 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf USENIX Association MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Carback, Richard T. Chaum, David Clark, Jeremy Conway, John Essex, Aleksander Herrnson, Paul S. Mayberry, Travis Popoveniuc, Stefan Rivest, Ronald L. Shen, Emily (Emily Huei-Yi) Sherman, Alan T. Vora, Poorvi L. Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy |
| title | Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy |
| title_full | Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy |
| title_fullStr | Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy |
| title_short | Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy |
| title_sort | scantegrity ii municipal election at takoma park the first e2e binding governmental election with ballot privacy |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63143 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7105-3690 |
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