Takoma Park: first ever e2e binding election
Takoma Park, Maryland, for its local election today, is embarking on something of a radical experiment. They’re using Scantegrity‘s verifiable voting technology. The “normal” voter’s experience is that...
View ArticleEVT/WOTE 2010 Call for Papers
The Program Chairs of the 2010 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop / Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE’10), Doug Jones (University of Iowa), Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Université Catholique...
View ArticleA New Voting System Certification Regime
Voting systems are certified at the national level to a set of standards–the VVSG–by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The EAC recently adopted a second avenue for certifying voting...
View ArticleACCURATE’s UOCAVA Pilot Program Comments
As we described earlier this week, the Election Assistance Commission is developing a new voting systems testing and certification regime geared towards pilot voting systems–that is, experimental...
View ArticleACCURATE Research at EVT/WOTE 2010
Results from ACCURATE research were presented recently at the EVT/WOTE 2010 Workshop, co-located with the 2010 USENIX Security Symposium. Some highlights: The paper, “Efficient User-Guided Ballot Image...
View ArticleACCURATE Comments on the VSTCP Manual, v2.0
The Election Assistance Commission put the 2nd version of their Voting System Testing and Certification Program (VSTCP) Manual out for comment in late November of last year. Today was the due date for...
View ArticleACCURATE Comments on E-voting in Union Elections
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently asked for public comment on a fascinating issue: what kind of guidelines should they give unions that want to use “electronic voting” to elect their...
View ArticleEVT/WOTE 2011 Program now up!
The program for the 2011 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop / Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE’11) is now up here: http://www.usenix.org/events/evtwote11/tech/. The Program Chairs, Hovav...
View ArticleFascinating Result from Princeton: Bubble-Fingerprinting
Researchers and close ACCURATE confidants at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, Will Clarkson, Joe Calandrino and Ed Felten, have just released a neat new result (“New Research...
View ArticleTX Supreme Court Rules on Voting Machine Suit
Last week, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the NAACP of Austin could have its case dismissed against the Secretary of State of Texas. Tim Lee writing for Ars Technica does a great job of summarizing...
View ArticleACCURATE Comments on VSTCP Manual
Today ACCURATE submitted a public comment to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) on the draft Voting System Testing & Certification Program (VSTCP) Manual. The Brennan Center for Justice...
View ArticleTouchscreen Calibration Issues with Voting Machines
Direct-recording electronic voting systems from several major vendors, including Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia, have touch-sensitive screens. The screen shows pictures of buttons with labels for the...
View ArticleACCURATE Comments on the VVSG
A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE) submitted public comment today to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on their draft Voluntary Voting System...
View ArticleVote “Flipping” on Hart InterCivic eSlate Systems
In the news, we’re seeing a number of reports concerning “vote flipping.” The story, as typically reported, is that voters are attempting to vote for one candidate but observe that the machine...
View ArticleCall for Voting System Demonstration Proposals
As part of the 2009 Electronic Voting Tech Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE 2009), we would like to hold a system demonstration session. We envisage this session as an opportunity...
View ArticleACCURATE Comment on VVSG v1.1
A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE) submitted public comment today to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on their draft Voluntary Voting System...
View ArticleTakoma Park: first ever e2e binding election
Takoma Park, Maryland, for its local election today, is embarking on something of a radical experiment. They’re using Scantegrity‘s verifiable voting technology. The “normal” voter’s experience is...
View ArticleSHOULD YOU BORROW MONEY FROM THE BANK OR LICENSED MONEY LENDERS?
Bank often lends money to people who are financially stable. Thus, yielding some Singaporeans to borrow money from Money Lender Singapore. But where should you borrow? First, you need to understand...
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