Abstract
This paper reports on the experience of deploying the vVote verifiable voting system in the November 2014 State election in Victoria, Australia. It describes the system that was deployed, discusses its end-to-end verifiability, and reports on the voters’ and poll workers’ experience with the system. Blind voters were able to cast a fully secret ballot in a verifiable way, as were voters in remote locations. The feedback finds the system to be acceptably usable with an electronic interface, though with some lessons for the future. It finds that new verifiability checks in the voting ceremony did not impede function nor satisfaction. There were challenges in the complexity of the equipment, in training, and in limited levels of attendance at several sites. One important verifiability audit was not effectively offered to electors in this deployment. The system took 1121 votes from the specific groups to whom it was made available.