grarpamp, Steven, anybody else, do you guys know where to find the state of community research, work, or activism on voting protocols or designs that could be used in a voting machine or for digital voting that respects citizens?
Second, Karl writes: "The cryptographic software communities have developed working examples of transparent voting protocols for decades now, in the hopes of these things being adopted by governments."
I would appreciate any hyperlinks to these communities. I think the source code for any voting computers -- say, robustly audited optical scanners processing handmarked paper ballots -- needs to be free/open software, fully available to public inspection, always. How to get from where we are now, to there, is a difficult question.