ACCURATE http://accurate-voting.org A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections Mon, 05 May 2008 18:10:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en ACCURATE Comments on the VVSG http://accurate-voting.org/2008/05/05/accurate-vvsg2-comments/ http://accurate-voting.org/2008/05/05/accurate-vvsg2-comments/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 17:48:40 +0000 Joseph Hall http://accurate-voting.org/?p=72 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.

ACCURATE’s comments laud the new draft as a groundbreaking and badly needed overhaul of our national voting system standards while making constructive suggestions for further development.

The most significant element of the draft VVSG is the requirement for software independence, which would require voting systems to be designed so that undetected flaws in the voting system software cannot cause changes in the vote count. ACCURATE fully supports requiring software independence as the backbone of a robust and comprehensive next-generation voting system certification regime.

The commentary goes on to emphasize the importance of welcome features of the draft: adversarial vulnerability testing, volume testing, the new framework for usability and accessibility testing and comprehensive voting system documentation requirements. The comment closes by pointing out areas of the VVSG that will require increased institutional support outside of the VVSG process, including the crucial innovation class and a closed loop for incident reporting and feedback.

ACCURATE plans to participate further as the draft VVSG is modified and extended.

Download the ACCURATE comments: PDF

]]> http://accurate-voting.org/2008/05/05/accurate-vvsg2-comments/feed/ ACCURATE/Usenix EVT ‘08 CFP http://accurate-voting.org/2008/01/30/accurateusenix-evt-08-cfp/ http://accurate-voting.org/2008/01/30/accurateusenix-evt-08-cfp/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:34:51 +0000 Rebecca Perkins http://accurate-voting.org/2008/01/30/accurateusenix-evt-08-cfp/ 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.

]]> http://accurate-voting.org/2008/01/30/accurateusenix-evt-08-cfp/feed/ Annual Report http://accurate-voting.org/2008/01/21/2007-annual-report-available/ http://accurate-voting.org/2008/01/21/2007-annual-report-available/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:58:08 +0000 Rebecca Perkins http://accurate-voting.org/2008/01/21/2007-annual-report-available/ Our 2007 Annual Report is available. The report highlights the Center’s major accomplishments and activities from 2007.

]]> http://accurate-voting.org/2008/01/21/2007-annual-report-available/feed/ California top-to-bottom review reports http://accurate-voting.org/2007/08/03/california-top-to-bottom-review-reports/ http://accurate-voting.org/2007/08/03/california-top-to-bottom-review-reports/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:35:12 +0000 David Wagner http://accurate-voting.org/2007/08/03/california-top-to-bottom-review-reports/ 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.

]]> http://accurate-voting.org/2007/08/03/california-top-to-bottom-review-reports/feed/ ACCURATE/USENIX EVT ’07 http://accurate-voting.org/2007/07/02/accurateusenix-evt-07/ http://accurate-voting.org/2007/07/02/accurateusenix-evt-07/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:51:17 +0000 David Wagner http://accurate-voting.org/2007/07/02/accurateusenix-evt-07/ The EVT ’07 workshop, co-sponsored by ACCURATE and USENIX, is now open for registration. Register online by Friday, July 27, 2007.

Read on for more information.

Dear Colleague:

Join us in Boston, MA, August 6, 2007, for the second USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT) workshop. EVT seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines, ranging from computer science and human factors experts through
political scientists, legal experts, election administrators, and voting equipment vendors. The workshop format will emphasize questions and answers for the papers as well as discussion among the participants.

The paper presentations cover a broad range of topics including auditing and transparency, analysis, and design.

The full program can be found at:

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to engage in vibrant discussion on key topics in the evoting community. Register today at:

EVT ’07 will be co-located with the 16th USENIX Security Symposium, August 6–10, 2007:

We look forward to seeing you in Boston.

Ray Martinez, Martinez Consulting Group

David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley

EVT ’07 Program Chairs

2007 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT ’07)

August 6, 2007

Boston, MA

Sponsored by USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association, and ACCURATE, A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections

Register online by Friday, July 27, 2007

]]> http://accurate-voting.org/2007/07/02/accurateusenix-evt-07/feed/ Sarasota’s disputed Congressional election http://accurate-voting.org/2007/04/13/sarasotas-disputed-congressional-election/ http://accurate-voting.org/2007/04/13/sarasotas-disputed-congressional-election/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:47:14 +0000 Dan Wallach http://accurate-voting.org/2007/04/13/sarasotas-disputed-congressional-election/ David Dill and Dan Wallach recently wrote a report discussing open research issues in Florida’s 13th Congressional District.

]]> http://accurate-voting.org/2007/04/13/sarasotas-disputed-congressional-election/feed/ Other recent House/Senate testimony http://accurate-voting.org/2007/04/02/other-recent-housesenate-testimony/ http://accurate-voting.org/2007/04/02/other-recent-housesenate-testimony/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:10:32 +0000 Dan Wallach http://accurate-voting.org/2007/04/02/other-recent-housesenate-testimony/ 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.

]]> http://accurate-voting.org/2007/04/02/other-recent-housesenate-testimony/feed/ Wagner testifies on source code disclosure http://accurate-voting.org/2007/03/25/wagner-testifies-on-source-code-disclosure/ http://accurate-voting.org/2007/03/25/wagner-testifies-on-source-code-disclosure/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:58:08 +0000 David Wagner http://accurate-voting.org/2007/03/25/wagner-testifies-on-source-code-disclosure/ 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.

]]> http://accurate-voting.org/2007/03/25/wagner-testifies-on-source-code-disclosure/feed/ FSU releases study on voting machines used in Sarasota, Florida http://accurate-voting.org/2007/02/25/fsu-releases-study-on-voting-machines-used-in-sarasota-florida/ http://accurate-voting.org/2007/02/25/fsu-releases-study-on-voting-machines-used-in-sarasota-florida/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:20:29 +0000 David Wagner http://accurate-voting.org/2007/02/25/fsu-releases-study-on-voting-machines-used-in-sarasota-florida/ 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.

]]> http://accurate-voting.org/2007/02/25/fsu-releases-study-on-voting-machines-used-in-sarasota-florida/feed/ ACCURATE/Usenix EVT ‘07 CFP http://accurate-voting.org/2007/02/16/accurateusenix-evt-07-cfp/ http://accurate-voting.org/2007/02/16/accurateusenix-evt-07-cfp/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:00:47 +0000 Rebecca Perkins http://accurate-voting.org/2007/02/16/accurateusenix-evt-07-cfp/ 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.

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