Feature Updates
September 12, 2008The last few weeks have seen significant new Helios features:
- voter categories, so you can have multiple “precincts”
- an alpha of a machine API with open registration, so that authentication can be performed by a third-party
- distributed decryption by multiple trustees (hot off the press a few minutes ago!)
Documentation is outstanding on this, I need to get to that soon.
It looks like people can’t vote after the election has been tabulated. Is that correct? If so, perhaps there could be a warning about that. I invited about 10 people to vote and I voted first and out of curiosity I tallied the votes and sure enough my votes were there as 1’s in the columns I voted for, but then nobody else could vote. It’s fine if no voting can take place after tallying, but there should be a warning that tallying will end voting – maybe there was a warning and I just missed it? Thanks. I think this is amazing technology and as it continues to improve, I hope all elections can be held using this! Thanks.