Resources

These websites are good places to begin your own research on this topic. (Note: for more sources, use the hyperlinks in my talk slides.)

Computer Scientists on Electronic Voting

The October 2004 issue of the Communications of the ACM contains a special section on “The Problems and Potentials of Voting Systems”:

“Introduction”

Peter G. Neumann

“Voting Systems Standards and Certifications”

Herb Deutsch and Stephen Berger

“Independent Testing of Voting Systems”

Carolyn Coggins

“Implementing Voting Systems: The Georgia Method”

Brit J. Williams and Merle S. King

“Small Vote Manipulations Can Swing Elections”

Anthony Di Franco, Andrew Petro, Emmett Shear, and Vladimir Vladimirov

“Auditing Elections”

Douglas W. Jones

“The Code of Elections”

Rebecca T Mercuri and L. Jean Camp

“Analyzing Internet Voting Security”

David Jefferson, Aviel D. Rubin, Barbara Simons, and David Wagner

“Source Availability and E-Voting: An Advocate Recants”

Jason Kitcat

“ACM Statement on Voting Systems”

Jeff Grove

Student membership in the ACM is only $42 and gives you electronic access to all the publications of the ACM and to the ACM Professional Development Centre.

Voting and Elections

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/

Voting and Elections materials by Douglas W. Jones, Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa. Professor Jones has served on election boards, and has both theoretical and practical expertise in this area. In addition to a lot of material about electronic voting, he's posted some very interesting information about the history of voting and voting technologies.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/

Machine Politics, a regularly updated archive of stories on electronic voting from Wired News.

Legislation

http://fecweb1.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm

Federal Election Commission's website on the Help America Vote Act of 2002

http://holt.house.gov/issues2.cfm?id=5996

Press release for the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003, introduced by Rep. Rush Holt (New Jersey).

The text of the bill: HR 2239. Senate version is S 1980, sponsored by Sen. Robert Graham (Florida).

Verified Voting

http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html

These Electronic Voting web pages are posted by the inventor of Voter Verified Balloting, Rebecca Mercuri.

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Verified Voting Campaign to Demand Verifiable Election Results

Activism

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering in the 21st Century. Founded by Bev Harris, a discoverer of the infamous Diebold FTP site, this website contains reports of Harris's investigative research, chapters of her book, and links to related websites. It also serves as an on-line forum for activism around the electronic voting issue.

http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/

Electronic Frontier Foundation E-Voting Archive

New York

http://www.elections.state.ny.us/

New York State Board of Elections website. Links to HAVA compliance documents are prominently posted on the homepage.

http://www.nypirg.org/goodgov/hava/

The New York Public Interest Research Group's New York State Citizen's Coalition on HAVA.

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