Archive for October, 2008

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Helios featured on Salon.com

October 23, 2008

Cyrus Farivar does a great job of covering the topic of crypto voting, and not just because he mentions Helios:

One of the strange things about E2E verifiable voting is that it involves cryptography — usually something used to keep things more secret — as a tool to make voting more open and more secure. (Weird, I know.)

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Bulk Voter Upload & Multi-Answer Questions

October 7, 2008

Another update pushed to the Helios server today, with two important enhancements:

  1. You can bulk upload voters using comma-separated values (basically Excel.) Currently, the Google App Engine timing limitation means you probably want to bulk upload in chunks of 40 or less, but still much better than one at a time.

  2. You can now specify that a question accepts more than one possible answer. Very useful for letting voters select 2 out 7 board members, for example. The crypto proofs are all updated to take into account this enhancement.

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