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Overview of Major Expert Studies on Voting Systems

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Clearly, this overview can and should be expanded, given adequate funding.

Reports Reviewed:

1. Brennan Center, The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World,
2006 http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/downloads/Full%20Report.pdf

2. Compuware Corp. DRE Technical Security Assessment Report for Ohio, November 2003.
Congressional Research Service, Election Reform and Electronic Voting Systems (DREs): Analysis of Security Issues. (Order Code RL32139) November 4, 2003. click here

3. Congressional Research Service, Election Reform and Electronic Voting Systems (DREs): Analysis of Security Issues. (Order Code RL32139) November 4, 2003. click here

4. Election Science Institute, 2006, "DRE Analysis for May 2006 Primary Cuyahoga County, Ohio"
http://www.cuyahogacounty.us/bocc/GSC/pdf/esi_cuyahoga_final.pdf or see http://www.electionscience.org click on Cuyahoga County Report tab.

5. Princeton Study: Feldman, Ariel J., J.A. Halderman, and E.W. Felten, "Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine," Center for Information Technology Policy and Dept. of Computer Science, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2006. http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting

6. Government Accountability Office, 2005, Elections: Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf

7. Harry Hursti, Black Box Report Security Alert: July 4, 2005 Critical Security Issues with Diebold Optical Scan Design (1.94w), 2005, http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf

8. RABA Technologies LLC. Trusted Agent Report: Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting System (report prepared for Department of Legislative Services, Maryland General Assembly, Annapolis, Md., January 2004). http://www.raba.com/press/TA_Report_AccuVote.pdf

9. News article: Aviel Rubin, "On My Mind: Pull The Plug," Forbes Magazine, 8/2006 http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0904/040.html?partner=alerts&_requestid=2972

10. News article: U.S. Commission on Federal Election Reform, 2006. "Reversing Course on Electronic Voting: Some Former Backers of Technology Seek Return to Paper Ballots, Citing Glitches, Fraud Fears," Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2006.
click here


Summaries

BRENNAN CENTER: The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World,
2006. http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/downloads/Full%20Report.pdf

Studied 3 voting systems by type: DRE, DRE w/VVPAT, and Optical Scan. Brennan identified 120 vulnerability points.

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