Voting Receipt

Definition

1. A receipt indicating that a voter has voted, but not revealing anything about the voter’s choices. “If a mechanical voting system is used whereby votes are directly recorded electronically: (a) A voting receipt which has two parts must be used. (b) Each part of the voting receipt must bear the same number for identification. (c) One part of the voting receipt must be given to the voter when he votes and the other part of the voting receipt must be retained by the election board.” Nevada Rev. Stat. §293B.103(2). 2. A receipt indicating how a voter has voted. Such receipts are generally illegal since they can be used as a proof of vote and therefore can facilitate VOTE-BUYING. In certain verifiable cryptographic systems, the voter can be given a receipt which proves to the voter how she voted, but cannot be used to prove the vote to anyone else. A paper record produced by a VVPAT is not a receipt since it is not retained by the voter. Voting Reference Data Set A “subset of the NSRL REFERENCE DATA SET that includes only voting system software. It contains file-identifying information (FII) that can be used to uniquely identify voting system software files. This FII, which includes digital signatures, is derived from software provided to the NSRL by voting system vendors and voting system test laboratories. The VRDS is available for use by states, vendors, labs, and othe r interested parties to uniquely identify files by comparing file information from a voting system with information in the VRDS. Abbreviated VRDS.