The Connecticut Secretary of the State has released a document defining the requirements for electronic poll books to be used at polling places in Connecticut. An electronic poll book is a digital version of a registered voter list. Election moderators use these lists to determine whether a person is registered to vote and to record […]

The Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) at the School of Engineering of the University of Connecticut performed pre-election audit of the memory cards for the Accu-Vote Optical Scan (av-os) tabulators that were used in the November 5, 2013 elections. The cards were programmed by LHS Associates of Salem, New Hampshire, and shipped to […]

Scaling Privacy Guarantees in Code-Verification Elections Aggelos Kiayias and Anthi Orfanou E-Voting and Identify, 4th International Conference (Vote-ID 2013) Springer 2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 1-24 July 17-19, 2013, Guildford, UK www.voteid13.org Abstract Preventing the corruption of the voting platform is a major issue for any e-voting scheme. To address this, a number […]

Computer Assisted Post Election Audits Tigran Antonyan, Theodore Bromley, Laurent Michel, Alexander Russell, Alexander Shvartsman and Suzanne Stark State Certification Testing of Voting Systems National Conference June 20-21, 2013, Harrisburg, PA, USA Abstract The introduction of electronic voting technology in Connecticut necessitated the development of new policies and procedures by the Secretary of the State […]

Malicious Takeover of Voting Systems: Arbitrary Code Execution on Optical Scan Voting Terminals Russell J. Jancewicz, Aggelos Kiayias, Laurent D. Michel, Alexander C. Russell and Alexander A. Shvartsman In Proceedings of the 28th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2013) March 18-22, 2013, Coimbra, Portugal www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2013/ Abstract This work focuses on the AccuVote Optical Scan voting […]

The Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) at the School of Engineering of the University of Connecticut performed pre-election audit of the memory cards for the Accu-Vote Optical Scan (AV-OS) tabulators that were used in the November 6, 2012 elections. The cards were programmed by LHS Associates of Salem, New Hampshire, and shipped to […]

The Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) at the School of Engineering of the University of Connecticut performed pre-election and post-election audits of the memory cards for the Accu-Vote Optical Scan (AV-OS) tabulators used in the November 8, 2011 elections. The cards were programmed by LHS Associates of Salem, New Hampshire, and shipped to […]

E-Voting and Identity – Third International Conference (Vote-ID 2011), Edited Volume Aggelos Kiayias and Helger Lipmaa Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7187 Springer 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-32746 September 28-30, 2011, Tallinn, Estonia www.cs.ut.ee/~lipmaa/voteid2011/

The Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) at the School of Engineering of the University of Connecticut received the data gathered in the post-election audit performed in the State of Connecticut following the September 2011 election. The audits involved the randomly selected 10% of the districts and the audit returns were conveyed by the […]

Security and integrity concerns regarding the use of electronic voting technologies in elections necessitate comprehensive election audits. Two types of audits are routinely performed in all state-wide elections in Connecticut: random post-election hand-counted audits and technological audits. This report presents the summary of the technological audit results in Connecticut from 2007 to 2010. The technological […]