A hybrid touch interface for Prêt à Voter

Authors:
Chris Culnane
Affiliations:
University of Surrey
Venue:
EVT/WOTE'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Electronic Voting Technology/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a novel front-end for Prêt à Voter that aims to maintain the privacy and integrity guarantees found in the paper based version, whilst simultaneously improving the accessibility of Prêt à Voter. Namely, we maintain the Prêt à Voter property that no machine learns your vote, whilst providing improved accessibility. We term this new front-end Hybrid Touch and have implemented it on both a Microsoft Surface and a multi-touch screen. Hybrid Touch combines the privacy benefits of paper with the accessibility benefits of a touch screen. It is this combination that provides more accessibility opportunities as well as allowing Prêt à Voter to handle larger and more complicated elections. Our goal is to develop a single unified front-end, which can be easily augmented with additional accessibility technology, to provide the same core interface for both able-bodied and disabled voters.