What we need in the United States

Open Standards

Proprietary standards prevent discovery of best practices

 

We need open standards for election setup:

    Communicate ballot format to voting machine

    Communicate security keys to voting machine

We need open standards for result reporting:

    Communicate votes to tabulating center
        using telecommunication devices
        using hand-carried memory devices

    Must be tamper-evident

    Must provide absolute protection of voter privacy

    Must provide fault tolerance

    Must provide for formal audit of tabulation

We need a standard framework for threat analysis:

    Most system vendors do not understand threat analysis!

 

Most of these will apply to multiple E-voting technologies:

    Precinct-count mark-sense systems

    Direct-recording electronic voting systems

    Internet voting

 

Most of these will be useful internationally!