  In her 2011 EVT/WOTE keynote, Travis County, Texas County Clerk Dana
DeBeauvoir described the qualities she wanted in her ideal election system to
replace their existing DREs. In response, in April of 2012, the authors,
working with DeBeauvoir and her staff, jointly architected STAR-Vote, a voting
system with a DRE-style human interface and a "belt and suspenders" approach to
verifiability. It provides both a paper trail and end-to-end cryptography using
COTS hardware. It is designed to support both ballot-level risk-limiting
audits, and auditing by individual voters and observers. The human interface
and process flow is based on modern usability research. This paper describes
the STAR-Vote architecture, which could well be the next-generation voting
system for Travis County and perhaps elsewhere.
