Resources

Note: Some of the resources on this page are password protected. If you came late to the talk, contact me and I'll send you a username and password.

In Print

News Stories

Here's a list of selected news stories on electronic voting, dating back to just before the most recent national election. (Password protected.)

Computer Scientists on Electronic Voting

If you only have time to read one item on this page, make it this Conversation with D.W. Jones and P.G. Neumann on election integrity. It's from the November 2006 ACM Queue magazine.

Second on the list (and hot off the press) is “Fixing Federal E-Voting Standards” by Earl Barr, Matt Bishop, and Mark Gondree. It's from the March 2007 issue of the Communications of the ACM.

The October 2004 issue of the Communications of the ACM contains a special section on “The Problems and Potentials of Voting Systems”. (Password protected.)

“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

The January/February 2004 issue of IEEE Security & Privacy contains a special section on e-voting. (Password protected.)

“Introduction: E-Voting Security”

David L. Dill and Aviel D. Rubin

“Election Security: Perception and Reality”

David Evans and Nathanael Paul

“Hack-a-Vote: Security Issues with Electronic Voting Systems”

Jonathan Bannet, David W. Price, Algis Rudys, Justin Singer, and Dan S. Wallach

“Secret-Ballot Receipts: True Voter-Verifiable Elections”

David Chaum

On The Web

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.

Note: the archive has disappeared, but if you search for "Machine Politics" in the box on the error page the above link will produce, you can get a listing of relevant articles.

Legislation

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

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

http://www.eac.gov/

Website of the United States Election Assistance Commission. This is from its mission statement: “The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) was established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). Central to its role, the Commission serves as a national clearinghouse and resource for information and review of procedures with respect to the administration of Federal elections.”

http://holt.house.gov/list/press/nj12_holt/020607.html

Press release for the reintroduction (third time's a charm?) of the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, introduced by Rep. Rush Holt (New Jersey).

The text of the bill: H.R. 811.

A related Senate bill is S. 559, sponsored by Sen. Bill Nelson (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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