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Overview of Major Expert Studies on Voting Systems

by Rady Ananda     Page 1 of 7 page(s)

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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.
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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.

Report is limited to identifying the least difficult way to alter results on a statewide Basis. It's also limited to studying attacks that cannot be prevented by physical security and accounting measures taken by election officials.

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Excellent coverage, Rady

This is an exceedingly useful resource. I hope that you will be able to update it soon with the latest NIST Draft, and then its bastard brother, the amended follow up report. And other reports as they come in.

by Nancy Tobi (79 articles, 4 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 60 comments) on Wednesday, Jan 3, 2007 at 3:24:50 PM

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Nice Rady - Here's Another Shorter Summary Too

Good one. Here's a one-page two-sider that folks can hand out: http://utahcountvotes.org/docs/WhatdotheExpertsSay.pdf

by Kathy Dopp (33 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 49 comments) on Monday, Jan 8, 2007 at 2:12:34 AM

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2-Sided, single page annotation

A colorful, 2-sided flyer summarizing the above points can be found at http://tinyurl.com/kwycu. On Jan. 17, I posted an expanded Annotated Bibliography (of 15 instead of 12 expert reports) to OpEdNews. Thanks Kathy & Nancy ~ your comments (and your work) are appreciated.

by Rady Ananda (182 articles, 374 quicklinks, 49 diaries, 1718 comments [201 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 1:32:07 PM

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Reply: Link to Annotated Bib of 15 Expert Reports

click here

by Rady Ananda (182 articles, 374 quicklinks, 49 diaries, 1718 comments [201 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 23, 2007 at 5:12:11 PM

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