Electronic Voting Issue Resources
Government Web sites
Standards
US voting equipment industry
International voting equipment industry, with commentary and criticism
(examples discussed in US context)
US academic research, commentary and criticism on voting systems and
technology (samples)
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- Caltech/MIT Voting Technology
Project (MIT website)
- Dr. Rebecca Mercuri
(Harvard)
- "Voting-Machine
Risks," November, 1992
- "Corrupted
Polling," November, 1993
- "Electronic
Vote Tabulation Checks & Balances" (Ph.D.
thesis, University of Pennsylvania) October 27, 2000
- "Voting
Automation (Early and Often?)," November 2000
- "The
FEC Proposed Voting Systems Standard Update,"
submitted to the Federal Election Commission on September 10, 2001
- "A
Better Ballot Box?", October 2002
- "Verification for Electronic Balloting Systems," Rebecca
T. Mercuri and Peter G. Neumann, Chapter 3,
Secure Electronic Voting, November 2002.
- "Electronic Voting Best Practices",
summary from "Voting, Vote Capture and Vote Counting" - June
2004 symposium, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Prof. David Dill
(Stanford), VerifiedVoting.org
- Dr. Avi Rubin (Johns Hopkins)
- The January/February
2004 issue of IEEE Security & Privacy, theme "E-Voting: Can you
trust it?", with guest editors David L. Dill, Aviel D. Rubin
- "Election Security: Perception and Reality" - David Evans,
Nathanael Paul
- "Hack-a-Vote: Security Issues with Electronic Voting Systems"
- Jonathan Bannet, David W. Price, Algis Rudys, Justin Singer, Dan S.
Wallach
- "Secret-Ballot Receipts: True Voter-Verifiable Elections"
- David Chaum
- Prof. Ted Selker (MIT)
- ACM Position on
Voting Systems
- Computerworld (trade magazine)
- Voting systems and alternatives for election reform
- Social Choice and Individual Values.
Kenneth J. Arrow. Wiley, 1951. (Yale University Press, 1990)
Fundamental principlesof elections, axiomatic approach; influential on
voting theory
- The Theory of Committees and Elections. Duncan
Black. Cambridge University Press, 1958. (Kluwer Academic Publications,
1998)
- Collective Choice and Social Welfare. Amartya
Kumar Sen. Holden-Day, 1970. (North-Holland, 1984)
- "The
Fairest Vote of All", Partha Dasgupta and Eric
Maskin. Scientific American, March 2004, pp 92-95. Review of voting
theory and arguments for a new "true majority rule" method,
based on voter ranking of candidates. Based on "On
the Robustness of Majority Rule and Unanimity Rule", Dasgupta
and Maskin, 1998-2003.
- Point, Click, Vote. R. Michael Alvarez
and Thad Hall. The Brookings Institution, February 2004. Should Americans
be able to use the Internet to vote?
Nonprofit organizations
Other press, citizen and activist commentary on voting technology
(samples)
Compiled by Alex Brown <a.brown@ieee.org>
Comments and contributions welcome