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Voter-verified paper audit trail

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Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) or Verifiable Paper Record (VPR) is a method of providing feedback to voters using a ballotless voting system. [1]

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Audit

An audit is a systematic and independent examination of books, accounts, statutory records, documents and vouchers of an organization to ascertain how far the financial statements as well as non-financial disclosures present a true and fair view of the concern.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Avi Rubin

Aviel David "Avi" Rubin (born November 8, 1967) is an expert in systems and networking security.

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Ballot

A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election, and may be a piece of paper or a small ball used in secret voting.

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Ballot box

A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually a square box though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period.

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Bangalore South (Lok Sabha constituency)

Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India.

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Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier (born January 15, 1963, is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist and writer. He is the author of several books on general security topics, computer security and cryptography. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute. He has been working for IBM since they acquired Resilient Systems where Schneier was CTO. He is also a contributing writer for The Guardian news organization.

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Chennai Central (Lok Sabha constituency)

The Lok Sabha constituency Chennai Central is one of three constituencies in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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Chris Dodd

Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period from 1981 to 2011.

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Computer data storage

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data.

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Cryptography

Cryptography or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.

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Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Cuyahoga County (or or) is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Data storage

Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

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David Chaum

David Lee Chaum (born 1955) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer.

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David L. Dill

David Lansing Dill (born January 8, 1957) is a computer scientist and academic noted for contributions to formal verification, electronic voting security, and computational systems biology.

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Delaware County, Ohio

Delaware County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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DRE voting machine

A direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machine records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be activated by the voter (typically buttons or a touchscreen); that processes data by means of a computer program; and that records voting data and ballot images in memory components.

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Election

An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.

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Election Commission of India

The Election Commission of India is an autonomous constitutional authority responsible for administering election processes in India.

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Election official

An election official, election officer, election judge, election clerk, or poll worker is an official responsible for the proper and orderly voting at polling stations.

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Election recount

An election recount is a repeat tabulation of votes cast in an election that is used to determine the correctness of an initial count.

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Elections in the United States

Elections in the United States are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels.

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Electoral fraud

Electoral fraud, election manipulation, or vote rigging is illegal interference with the process of an election, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both.

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Electronic voting

Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) refers to voting using electronic means to either aid or take care of the chores of casting and counting votes.

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Electronic voting in India

Electronic Voting Machines ("EVM") are being used in Indian General and State Elections to implement electronic voting in part from 1999 elections and recently in 2017 state elections held in five states across India.

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End-to-end auditable voting systems

End-to-end auditable or end-to-end voter verifiable (E2E) systems are voting systems with stringent integrity properties and strong tamper resistance.

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Gandhinagar (Lok Sabha constituency)

Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency (ગાંધીનગર લોકસભા મતવિસ્તાર) is one of the 26 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian Parliament) constituencies in Gujarat, a state in western India.

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Goa Legislative Assembly election, 2017

The Goa Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on February 4, 2017 to elect the 40 members of the Goa Legislative Assembly, as the term of current Legislative Assembly ends on March 18, 2017.

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Indian general election, 2014

The Indian general election of 2014 was held to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha, electing members of parliament for all 543 parliamentary constituencies of India.

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Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India.

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Kancheepuram (state assembly constituency)

Kancheepuram is a state assembly constituency in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Lucknow (Lok Sabha constituency)

Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.

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Mercuri method

The Mercuri method is another name for a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail—a modification to DRE (electronic) voting machines that provides for a physical (paper) audit record that may be used to verify the electronic vote count.

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Michael Ian Shamos

Michael Ian "Mike" Shamos (born April 21, 1947) is an American mathematician, attorney, book author, journal editor, consultant and company director.

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Mizoram (Lok Sabha constituency)

Mizoram is the only Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament) constituency in the Northeast Indian state of Mizoram, and covers the entire area of the state.

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Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, 2013

The Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, 2013 was held on 25 November 2013 in all 40 constituencies of the Legislative Assembly of Mizoram.

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National Institute of Standards and Technology

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is one of the oldest physical science laboratories in the United States.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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Noksen (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Noksen (Assembly Constituency) is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Nagaland.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Patna Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency)

Patna Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency) (पटना साहिब लोकसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India.

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PBS NewsHour

The PBS NewsHour is an American daily evening television news program that is broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), airing seven nights a week on more than 350 of the public broadcaster's member stations.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is non-free computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code, but sometimes patent rights.

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Raipur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Raipur is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Chhattisgarh.

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Rebecca Mercuri

Rebecca Mercuri is a computer scientist specializing in computer security and computer forensics.

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Secret ballot

The secret ballot is a voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum is anonymous, forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation, blackmailing, and potential vote buying.

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Sequoia Voting Systems

Sequoia Voting Systems was a California-based company that is one of the largest providers of electronic voting systems in the U.S., having offices in Oakland, Denver and New York City.

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Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, 2016

The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election was held on 16 May 2016 for the 232 seats (except Thanjavur and Aravakurichi) of the Legislative Assembly in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.

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Thermal paper

Thermal paper is a special fine paper that is coated with a material formulated to change color when exposed to heat.

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Thermal printing

Thermal printing (or direct thermal printing) is a digital printing process which produces a printed image by selectively heating coated thermochromic paper, or thermal paper as it is commonly known, when the paper passes over the thermal print head.

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Totaliser

Totaliser is a proposed mechanism in the voting machines in India to hide the booth-wise voting patterns.

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Treaty

A treaty is an agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations.

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United States House Committee on House Administration

The United States House Committee on House Administration deals with the general administration matters of the United States House of Representatives.

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United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (also called the Senate Rules Committee) is responsible for the rules of the United States Senate, administration of congressional buildings, and with credentials and qualifications of members of the Senate, including responsibility for dealing with contested elections.

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Verified Voting Foundation

The Verified Voting Foundation is an non-governmental, nonpartisan organization founded in 2003 by David L. Dill, a computer scientist from Stanford University, designed to preserve the democratic process with modern day voting advancements.

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Vote counting

There exist various methods through which the ballots cast at an election may be counted, prior to applying a voting system to obtain one or more winners.

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Voting machine

A voting machine is a machine used to register and tabulate votes.

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109th United States Congress

The One Hundred Ninth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, from January 3, 2005 to January 3, 2007, during the fifth and sixth years of George W. Bush's presidency.

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2004 United States election voting controversies

During the 2004 United States presidential election, concerns were raised about various aspects of the voting process, including whether voting had been made accessible to all those entitled to vote, whether ineligible voters were registered, whether voters were registered multiple times, and whether the votes cast had been correctly counted.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter-verified_paper_audit_trail

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