Tree-Homomorphic Encryption and Scalable Hierarchical Secret-Ballot Elections Aggelos Kiayias and Moti Yung Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 14th International Conference (FC 2010) Revised Selected Papers. Springer 2010 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 257-271 January 25-28, 2010, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain http://fc10.ifca.ai Abstract In this work we present a new paradigm for trust and work […]

State-wide Elections, Optical Scan Voting Systems, and the Pursuit of Integrity Tigran Antonyan, Seda Davtyan, Sotiris Kentros, Aggelos Kiayias, Laurent Michel, Nicolas Nicolaou, Alexander Russell and Alexander A. Shvartsman IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (Special Issue on Electronic Voting) Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Part: 1, December 2009, pp 597-610 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isYear=2009&isnumber=5312765&Submit32=Go+To+Issues Abstract In recent […]

Automating Voting Terminal Event Log Analysis Tigran Antonyan, Seda Davtyan, Sotiris Kentros, Aggelos Kiayias, Laurent Michel, Nicolas Nicolaou, Alexander Russell and Alexander Shvartsman In Proceedings of the 2009 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Workshop (EVT 09) August 10–14, 2009, Montreal, Canada www.usenix.org/events/evtwote09/ Abstract In the interest of auditing election procedures, certain electronic voting technologies provide monitoring capabilities […]

The Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) at the School of Engineering of the University of Connecticut performed a post-election audit of the memory cards for the Accu-Vote Optical Scan tabulators that were used and to be used in the November 2008 Elections. The cards were programmed by LHS Associates of Methuen, Massachusetts, and […]

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 November 2008 election. The audits involved the randomly selected 10% of the districts and the audit returns were conveyed by the […]

Taking Total Control of Voting Systems: Firmware Manipulations on an Optical Scan Voting Terminal Seda Davtyan, Sotiris Kentros, Aggelos Kiayias, Laurent Michel, Nicolas Nicolaou, Alexander Russell, Andrew See, Narasimha Shashidhar and Alexander A. Shvartsman In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009) March 9-12, 2009, Honolulu, HI, USA www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/ Abstract […]

Today, several members of the VoTeR Center were honored by the Secretary of the State with a Public Service Award for “invaluable contributions to assuring the success of our electoral process.”

The Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) at the School of Engineering of the University of Connecticut performed a pre-election audit of the memory cards for the Accu-Vote Optical Scan tabulators that are to be used in the November 2008 Elections in Connecticut. The cards are programmed by LHS Associates of Methuen, Massachusetts, and […]

The Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) at the School of Engineering of the University of Connecticut performed a post-election audit of the memory cards for the AccuVote Optical Scan tabulators that were used in the August 2008 Connecticut Primary Elections. The cards were programmed by LHS Associates of Methuen, Massachusetts, and shipped to […]

The Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) at the School of Engineering of the University of Connecticut performed a pre-election audit of the memory cards for the AccuVote Optical Scan tabulators that were used in the August 2008 Connecticut Primary Elections. The cards were programmed by LHS Associates of Methuen, Massachusetts. The districts covered […]