Since the inception of the voting center, we have provided several mechanisms of documentation for our findings. These finds are in the form of:
Analysis
- Forensic Audit of AVOS Tabulator
June 2023 - A Summary Comparison of the Optical Scan (OS) and the Touch Screen Voting Terminals
June 2007 - Optical Scan Report
October 2006
Reports
- Electronic Poll Book Systems as Distributed Systems: Requirements and Challenges – 2015-Seattle-4s.pdf
- A Systematic Approach to Analyzing Voting Terminal Event Logs – evt14.pdf
2014 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE’14), August 18-19, 2014, San Diego, CA, USA - Scaling Privacy Guanrantees in Code-Verification Elections
E-Voting and Identify, 4th International Conference (Vote-ID 2013), July 17-19, 2013, Guildford, UK - Computer Assisted Post Election Audits – AS-2013.pdf
State Certification Testing of Voting Systems National Conference, June 20-21, 2013, Harrisburg, PA, USA - Malicious Takeover of Voting Systems: Arbitrary Code Execution on Optical Scan Voting Terminals – abstract-acmsac2013.pdf
28th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2013), March 18-22, 2013, Coimbra, Portugal - Elections, Technology, and the Pursuit of Integrity: the Connecticut Landscape – CT-Ind-2012.pdf
State Certification Testing of Voting Systems National Conference, June 14-15, 2012, Indianapolis, IN, USA - Integrity of Electronic Voting Systems: Fallacious Use of Cryptography – sac2012.pdf
27th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2012), March 26-30, 2012, Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy - E-Voting and Identity – Third International Conference
September 28-30, 2011, Tallinn, Estonia - The Vector-Ballot Approach for Online Voting Procedures
Towards Trustworthy Elections, New Directions in Electronic Voting, Springer 2010 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp 155-174 - Determining the Causes of AccuVote Optical Scan Voting Terminal Memory Card Failures – evt2010.pdf
2010 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Workshop (EVT 10), August 11–13, 2010, Washington, DC, USA - Tree-homomorphic Encryption and Scalable Hierarchical Secret-Ballot Elections
Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 14th International Conference (FC 2010), January 25-28, 2010, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain - State-wide Elections, Optical Scan Voting Systems, and the Pursuit of Integrity – ieee.pdf
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (Special Issue on Electronic Voting), Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Part: 1, December 2009, pp 597-610 - Automating Voting Terminal EventLog Analysis – evt09.pdf
2009 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Workshop (EVT 09), August 10–14, 2009, Montreal, Canada - Taking Total Control of Voting Systems – sac09.pdf
24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009), March 9-12, 2009, Honolulu, HI, USA - Pre-Election Testing and Post-Election Audit of Optical Scan Memory Cards – evt08.pdf
2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Workshop (EVT 08), July 28–August 1, 2008, San Jose, CA, USA - Tampering with Special Purpose Trusted Computing Devices: A Case Study in Optical Scan E-Voting – acsac07-voter.pdf
Twenty-Third Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2007), December 10-14, 2007, Miami, Florida - An Authentication and Ballot Layout Attack against an Optical Scan Voting Terminal – evt07.pdf
2007 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Workshop (EVT 07), August 6, 2007, Boston, MA, USA - An Internet Voting System Supporting User Privacy
22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2006), IEEE Computer Society 2006, pp. 165-174., December 11-15, 2006, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Presentations
- Determining the Causes of AccuVote Optical Scan Voting Terminal Memory Card Failures – evt10.pdf
EVT’10, Washington, DC, August, 2010 - Automating Voting Terminal Event Log Analysis – evt09.pdf
EVT’09, Montreal, Canada, August 2009 - Taking Total Control of Voting Systems: Firmware Manipulations on an Optical Scan Voting Terminal – sac09.pdf
SAC’09, Honolulu, HI, March 2009 - Pre-Election Testing and Post-Election Audit of Optical Scan Voting Terminal Memory Cards – evt08.pdf
EVT’08, SAn Jose, CA, July 2008 - Voting Technology and Election Integrity – VC-UConn-ACM-b.pdf
Related reports
- Report on the NIST/EAC Future of Voting Systems Symposium – NIST-EAC-Report.pdf
- Follow up on the problem encountered in the Town of Wilton using new non-volatile memory cards – Wilton-0.2_t.pdf
- Report on election partnership from electiononline.org – UConn partnership report.pdf
- State of Connecticut Security Procedures
- Procedures developed for the safe use of the Accuvote O.S. by the State of Connecticut – VC_OS_summary.pdf
- Pre-election test procedures for the Accuvote O.S. memory cards used by the State of Connecticut – VC_OS_MC_testing.pdf