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Machine-Assisted Election Auditing , Joseph A. Calandrino and J. Alex Halderman, Princeton University, Ed Felten 08/06/07 auditing, Election audit procedures usually rely on precinct-based recounts, in which workers manually review all paper ballots from selected polling places,...
An Examination of the Auditability of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) Ballots , Stephen N. Goggin and Michael D. Byrne, Rice University 08/06/07 auditing, vvpat, With heightened concerns over the security of electronic voting machines, 37 states now require some form of voter verification mechanism...
Ballot Casting Assurance via Voter-Initiated Poll Station Auditing , Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research 08/06/07 audit, crypto, The technology for veriŻable, open-audit elections has advanced substantially since research on this topic began a quarter century ago. Many of the problems...
Evaluation of Audit Sampling Models and Options for Strengthening California’s Manual Count , Post-Election Audit Standards Working Group 07/27/07 audit, Auditing is one of the most important tools for verifying election results and checking the accuracy and reliability of voting systems....
Collaborative Public Audit of the November 2006 General Election pursuant to the charge from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections , The Collaborative Audit Committee 04/18/07 audit, OH, VVPAT, Cuyahoga, state data, Diebold, As is true of many initial audits, whether of a for-profit company or public agency, this Audit Report relates both...
A Quick Primer on The Mathematics of Post-Election Audit Confidence Joseph Lorenzo Hall, 03/20/07 auditing, There has been a considerable amount of discussion surrounding post-election manual audits of paper records produced by voting systems [3]. One...
Comments on Help America Vote Act Amendments , Election Technology Council 03/01/07 election administration, VVPAT, auditing, open source, paper, accessibility, wireless, The Election Technology Council (ETC) consists of companies that offer voting system technology hardware products, software and services to support the electoral...
Case Study: Auditing the Vote Electionline.org, 03/01/07 auditing, election administration, state data, The U.S. election system has been re-fitted in recent years with federal requirements for new voting systems, statewide voter registration databases, provisional ballots...
The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Security, Accessibility, Usability, and Cost Brennan Center for Justice 10/01/06 election technology, security, accessibility, usability, cost, VVPAT, voter verification, parallel testing, wireless, audits, fraud, accessibility, paper trail, On October 10, 2006, the Brennan Center for Justice released The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Security, Accessibility, Usability, and...
Independent Verification: Essential Actions to Assure Integrity in the Voting Process Roy Saltman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 08/15/06 election fraud, audit, DRE, paper trail, independent verification, There is a need for audit trails with direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems. The widely used, current method of providing...
ESI Report for Cuyahoga County Investigation Steven Hertzberg, Election Science Institute 08/01/06 VVPAT, Cuyahoga, OH, audit, DRE, recount, Following the 2004 General Election in Ohio, Cuyahoga County adopted a new voting system using the Diebold touch-screen voting system. The...
Auditing Technology for Electronic Voting Machines Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Sharon Cohen, MIT 05/01/05 DRE, audits, audio verification, vvpat, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine security has been a significant topic of contention ever since Diebold voting machine code turned...
An Active Approach To Voting Verification Dr. Ted Selker, Sharon Cohen, MIT, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project 05/01/05 audit trail, paper trail, voter verifiation, usability, audia verification, As our voting systems have come to rely more deeply on computer technology there have been great opportunities to improve the...
American Elections: A Critical Moment For Research And Reform Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Michael Alvarez 12/01/04 history, voter registration, poll site voting, electronic voting, voting technology, election administration, election auditing, election governance, The 2004 election provided important lessons regarding the performance of voting technology, about continuing problems with voter registration and provisional balloting, issues...
The Voter Verifiable Audio Audit Transcript Trail (VVAAT) Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Dr. Ted Selker 09/01/04 audio verification, voter verification, vvpat, audits, The debate about verifiable voter audit trails has prematurely narrowed into two camps: those who categorically deny the need for any...
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