“2,500 years after they first designed democracy’s core operating system of one person one vote, the Greeks are giving it an upgrade. A team of researchers in Athens say they’ve designed the world’s first encrypted e-voting system where voters can verify that votes cast actually go to the intended candidate. The process happens on a […]
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Elections, Technology, and the Pursuit of Integrity: the Connecticut Landscape
Elections, Technology, and the Pursuit of Integrity: the Connecticut Landscape Theodore Bromley, Peggy Reeves and Alexander Shvartsman State Certification Testing of Voting Systems National Conference June 14-15, 2012, Indianapolis, IN, USA Abstract Transition from lever voting machines to electronic voting technology in Connecticut necessitated the development of new policies and procedures by the Secretary of […]
Electronic Poll Book Systems as Distributed Systems: Requirements and Challenges
Electronic poll books are computerized systems that replace paper-based voter lists, having the potential for speeding up Election Day check-in at the polling place, and making voter history records and voter lists more accurate by reducing human errors in dealing with printed voter lists and post-election transcription. At the same time, electronic poll books are […]
Integrity of Electronic Voting Systems: Fallacious Use of Cryptography
Integrity of Electronic Voting Systems: Fallacious Use of Cryptography Seda Davtyan, Aggelos Kiayias, Laurent Michel, Alexander Russell and Alexander Shvartsman In Proceedings of the 27th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2012) March 26-30, 2012, Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/ Abstract In recent years, electronic voting systems have been deployed in all U.S. elections. Despite […]
Connecticut Electronic Poll Book Requirements Released
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 […]
Statistical Analysis of the Post-Election Audit Data 2014 August Primary Elections
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 August 12, 2014 election. The audit involved the randomly selected 10% of the districts and the audit returns were conveyed by […]
A Systematic Approach to Analyzing Voting Terminal Event Logs
A Systematic Approach to Analyzing Voting Terminal Event Logs Laurent D. Michel, Alexander A. Shvartsman and Nikolaj Volgushev 2014 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE’14) USENIX Journal of Election Technology and Systems (JETS), Volume 2, Number 2, April 2014 www.usenix.org/jets August 18-19, 2014, San Diego, CA, USA www.usenix.org Abstract This paper presents a […]
Post-Election Audit of Memory Cards for the November 6, 2012 Connecticut Elections
The Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) at the School of Engineering of the University of Connecticut performed post-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 […]
Pre-Election Audit of Memory Cards for the November 5, 2013 Connecticut Elections
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
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 […]