STAR-Vote: A Secure, Transparent, Auditable and Reliable Voting System
Susan H. Bell, Josh Benaloh, Michael D. Byrne, Dana DeBeauvoir, Bryce Eakin, Gail S. Fisher, Philip T. Kortum, Neal McBurnett, Montoya, Julian, Michelle Parker, Olivier Pereira, Philip B. Stark, Dan S. Wallach, Michael Winn · DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) · 2013
STAR-Vote is a collaboration between a number of academics and the Travis County (Austin), Texas elections office, which currently uses a DRE voting system and previously used an optical scan voting system. STAR-Vote represents a rare opportunity for a variety of sophisticated technologies, such as end-to-end cryptography and risk limiting audits, to be designed into a new voting system, from scratch, with a variety of real world constraints, such as election-day vote centers that must support thousands of ballot styles and run all day in the event of a power failure. This paper describes the current design of STAR-Vote which is now largely settled and whose development will soon begin.