Monday, May 23, 2005
Comparing VVPAT and VVAATT to trusted voting
Unfortunately VVPAT by itself does no provide a trusted voting process. True it holds out the promise of providing a more verifiable election than standalone computer voting terminals (DRE) with no paper trail records, however VVPAT is very much in the eye of the implementer.
Naturally existing vendors want to implement VVPAT in ways that stack the deck in their favour and leave their existing processes untouched in place.
What this means is that they are conforming to the letter of VVPAT without conforming to the spirit and intent. Worse - they want to deflect focus on this by promoting alternatives - such as audio verification and audit trails - (VVAATT) - by sponsoring heavily biased and distorted research - and attempting to hold that up as authorative independent work.
To understand this more - see the analysis here:
http://drrw.net/backup/Understanding%20VVPAT%20v%20VVAATT.pdf
DW
Naturally existing vendors want to implement VVPAT in ways that stack the deck in their favour and leave their existing processes untouched in place.
What this means is that they are conforming to the letter of VVPAT without conforming to the spirit and intent. Worse - they want to deflect focus on this by promoting alternatives - such as audio verification and audit trails - (VVAATT) - by sponsoring heavily biased and distorted research - and attempting to hold that up as authorative independent work.
To understand this more - see the analysis here:
http://drrw.net/backup/Understanding%20VVPAT%20v%20VVAATT.pdf
DW
# posted by DRRW @ 3:28 PM 
