Voter Verifiable Paper Trail

Security Vulnerabilities and Problems with VVPT

Working Paper No.: 
16
Date Published: 
01/01/2009
Author(s): 
Ted Selker, MIT
Jonathan Goler, MIT

A proposed Voter Verifiable Paper Trail (VVPT) includes a printed ballot as a receipt that a voter can view to verify their vote before leaving an electronic voting machine. This method is also supposed to insure the accuracy of the recorded vote by allowing the tally to be checked later by counting the collected receipts.

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