ACCURATE

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For reports associated with legal testimony, please see the Testimony page.

2009

Dan S. Wallach, Polling place burglary raises specter of fraud. Houston Chronicle (op-ed), December 10, 2009

Public Comment on the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, v1.1, Submitted to the United States Election Assistance Commission, September 2009.

2008

Our 2008 Annual Report describes the major highlights from the center’s activities during the year.

Voting Systems Would Benefit from More Attention to Human Factors Mike Byrne, Tiffany Jastrzembski, Douglas W. Jones, Bill Killam, Whitney Quesenbery, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Oct. 27, 2008.

E-Deceptive Campaign Practices, Lillie Coney, Juan E. Gilbert, Peter G. Neumann, Erik Nilsson, Jon Pincus, and Bruce Schneier, Electronic Privacy Information Center and The Century Foundation, October 20, 2008.

Software Review and Security Analysis of Scytl Remote Voting Software, Michael Clarkson, Brian Hay, Meador Inge, abhi shelat, David Wagner, Alec Yasinsac, September 19, 2008. Report commissioned by the Florida Division of Elections.

Combatting Insider Misuse, with Relevance to Integrity and Accountability in Elections and Other Applications, Peter G. Neumann, Dagstuhl Workshop on Insider Threats, July 20-25, 2008. Although Neumann was unable to attend, Matt Bishop created a set of slides and presented the paper.

Public Comment on the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines II, (Round 1), Submitted to the United States Election Assistance Commission, May 2008.

2007

Our 2007 Annual Report describes the major highlights from the center’s activities during the year.

Report on the Pvote security review, Ka-Ping Yee, November 14, 2007.

Source Code Review of the Diebold Voting System, Joseph A. Calandrino, Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, David Wagner, Harlan Yu, William P. Zeller, July 20, 2007. Report commissioned as part of the California Secretary of State’s Top-To-Bottom Review of California voting systems.

Source Code Review of the Hart InterCivic Voting System, Srinivas Inguva, Eric Rescorla, Hovav Shacham, and Dan S. Wallach, July 20, 2007. Report commissioned as part of the California Secretary of State’s Top-To-Bottom Review of California voting systems.

Source Code Review of the Sequoia Voting System, Matt Blaze, Arel Cordero, Sophie Engle, Chris Karlof, Naveen Sastry, Micah Sherr, Till Stegers, Ka-Ping Yee, July 20, 2007. Report commissioned as part of the California Secretary of State’s Top-To-Bottom Review of California voting systems.

Documentation Review of the Hart InterCivic System 6.2.1 Voting System, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Laura Quilter, July 20, 2007. Report commissioned as part of the California Secretary of State’s Top-To-Bottom Review of California voting systems.

Review of the Documentation of the Sequoia Voting System, Aaron J. Burstein, Nathan S. Good, Deirdre K. Mulligan, July 20, 2007. Report commissioned as part of the California Secretary of State’s Top-To-Bottom Review of California voting systems.

David L. Dill and Dan S. Wallach, Stones Unturned: Gaps in the Investigation of Sarasota’s Disputed Congressional Election, April 2007.

Pvote Software Review Assurance Document, Ka-Ping Yee, March 29, 2007.

Software Review and Security Analysis of the ES&S iVotronic 8.0.1.2 Voting Machine Firmware, Alec Yasinsac, David Wagner, Matt Bishop, Ted Baker, Breno de Medeiros, Gary Tyson, Michael Shamos, and Mike Burmester, February 23, 2007. Report commissioned by the Florida State Division of Elections.

This past year was a very busy and productive year for ACCURATE. Our Annual Report describes the major highlights from the center’s activities during the year.

2006

Statewide Databases of Registered Voters: Study Of Accuracy, Privacy, Usability, Security, and Reliability Issues, Paula Hawthorn, Barbara Simons, Chris Clifton, David Wagner, Steven M. Bellovin, Rebecca N. Wright, Arnon Rosenthal, Ralph Spencer Poore, Lillie Coney, Robert Gellman, Harry Hochheiser, February 16, 2006.
Study commissioned by the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuBasic Interpreter, David Wagner, David Jefferson, Matt Bishop, Chris Karlof, Naveen Sastry. Report of the California Secretary of State’s Voting Systems Technology Assessment Advisory Board (VSTAAB), February 14, 2006.

2005

Analysis of Volume Testing of the AccuVote TSx/AccuView, Matt Bishop, Loretta Guarino, David Jefferson, David Wagner. Report of the California Secretary of State’s Voting Systems Technology Assessment Advisory Board (VSTAAB), October 11, 2005.

The Promise of Cryptographic Voting Protocols, Chris Karlof, Naveen Sastry, and David Wagner, June 2005.

Public Comment on the 2005 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, Submitted to the United States Election Assistance Commission, September 2005.

2004

A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), David Jefferson, Aviel D. Rubin, Barbara Simons, and David Wagner. Report to the Department of Defense (DoD) Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), January 20, 2004.

Original proposal materials

Many people have asked to read our original NSF grant proposal (194k PDF). You may also want to see the slides from our site visit (1.29M PDF).