A technical review of vote verification systems was conducted for the Maryland State Board of Elections. The vote verification and post-election auditing capabilities of five touchscreen vote verification machines, to be used in conjunction with a voting system, were evaluated.
Other secondary considerations of the evaluation included general functionality, security, reliability, accessibility, and privacy.
The evaluation results concluded that the currently used Diebold voting system could provide better vote verification by being integrated with any of the four vote verification systems. Only small modifications would be needed for integration of the voting machine with the vote verification machine.
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Sherman, A. T., Gangopadhya, A., Holden, S. H., Karabatis, G., Koru, A. G., Law, C. M., . . . Zhang, D. (2006). “An examination of vote verification technologies: Findings and experiences from the Maryland study.” Paper presented at the 2006 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop, Vancouver, Canada.