Aperio: High Integrity Elections for Developing Countries

This article presents an ‘end-to-end’ integrity verification mechanism for use in minimally equipped secret paper-ballot election environments. The scheme presented in this paper achieves high integrity properties without interfering with the traditional marking and tabulation procedures of paper-ballot elections. Officials and auditors can respectively generate and independently verify ‘end-to-end’ audit trails, with office stationery and entirely without cryptographic or mathematic computations.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: WOTE
• Authors: Aleksander Essex, Jeremy Clark, Carlisle Adams
• Keywords: Emerging Technology, Integrity Verification Mechanism, Paper-ballot Election Environments, Paper-ballot Elections, WOTE 2010