Scantegrity Responds to Rice Study on Usability of the Scantegrity II Voting System
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McBurnett, Neal
Carback, Richard T.
Chaum, David
Clark, Jeremy
Conway, John
Essex, Aleksander
Herrnson, Paul S.
Mayberry, Travis
Popoveniuc, Stefan
Rivest, Ronald L.
Date Issued
December 28, 2014
Publisher
Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Series/Report no.
VTP Working Paper Series;126
Abstract
This note is a response to, and critique of, recent work by Acemyan, Kortum, Bryne, and Wallach regarding the usability of end-to-end verifiable voting systems, and in particular, to their analysis of the usability of the Scantegrity II voting system. Their work is given in a JETS paper [Ace14] and was presented at EVT/WOTE 2014; it was also described in an associated press release [Rut14]. We find that their study lacked an appropriate control voting system with which to compare effectiveness, and thus their conclusions regarding Scantegrity II are unsupported by the evidence they present. Furthermore, their conclusions are contradicted by the successful deployment experiences of Scantegrity II at Takoma Park.
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