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 Guidelines (VVSG), urging the Commission to adopt certain key features fo the draft. The VVSG provides a national certification framework for U.S. voting systems against which 40 states require their voting systems to be certified.
We are currently accepting paper submissions for the The 3rd EVT Workshop to be held July 28–29, 2008, co-located with the 17th USENIX Security Symposium in San Jose, California. For more information please visit the CFP site.
Our 2007 Annual Report is available. The report highlights the Center’s major accomplishments and activities from 2007.
Reports from the top-to-bottom review of California voting systems have been released at the California Secretary of State’s web site.
As part of the top-to-bottom review, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen commissioned the University of California to evaluate 3 voting systems used in the state of California. The study involves four components: accessibility review, red team testing, source code review, and document review. Reports from the first three components are now available. The document review reports are expected to be released later.
The EVT ’07 workshop, co-sponsored by ACCURATE and USENIX, is now open for registration. Register online by Friday, July 27, 2007.
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David Dill and Dan Wallach recently wrote a report discussing open research issues in Florida’s 13th Congressional District.
ACCURATE PI Dan Wallach testified before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration on February 7. His testimony is now online. Also of interest to readers of this site, Princeton professor Ed Felten recently testified before the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Elections. In his blog, he discusses both his main testimony and supplemental testimony.
David Wagner (an ACCURATE member) recently testified before the US House of Representatives at a hearing of the Elections Subcommittee of the Committee on House Administration. Wagner’s written testimony addresses the issue of public disclosure of voting system source code.
An independent team of experts, led by Florida State University, released a report on the ES&S iVotronic voting machines used in Sarasota County, Florida during the contested Congressional District 13 race last November. The FSU report was commissioned by the Florida State Division of Elections. The report’s authors included ACCURATE PI David Wagner.
We are currently accepting paper submissions for the The 2nd EVT Workshop to be held Monday, August 6, 2007, co-located with the 16th USENIX Security Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts. For more information please visit the CFP site.
