Computer Science - voting

CS Table 11/29: Election Hacking

petersos — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 14:49:39 +0000

At this CS Table we will discuss a recent turn of events in the presidential election: election security experts are calling for recounts in several critical states. Why are they doing this, and why do we need to recount or audit our elections?

Read these three recent articles building up to this recent call:

Bruce Schneider. Election Security. In Schneier on Security. Posted on 11/15/2016.
Ron Rivest and Phillip Stark. Still time for an election audit: Column. Posted on 11/18/2016.
J. Alex Halderman. Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots. In medium.com. Posted 11/23/2016.

In addition, to give you more background on the perils of voting and technology, read this paper by researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor about breaking into Internet voting systems:

(PDF) Scott Wolchok, Eric Wustrow, Drawn Isabel, J. Alex Halderman. Attacking the Washington, D.C. Internet Voting System. In Financial Crytography and Data Security. Volume 7397, pp 114–128. Springer-Verlag, 2012.

Printed readings are available at Noyce 3827.

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CS Table 3/15: E2E-VIV

petersos — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 14:56:45 +0000

This week's topic is End-to-end Verifiable Internet Voting (E2E-VIV), and we'll consider the following questions:

Why do we care about Internet voting?
What do we require of an Internet voting system?
How does end-to-end verified internet voting systems address these issues?

We'll discuss the US Vote Foundations recent technical report on E2E-VIV. For Tuesday, please read:

the executive summary
Chapter 2 (Remote Voting) and Chapter 4 (Required Properties of E2E Systems) from the report for non-technical audiences
If you are interested in electronic voting, I highly recommend reading through the full technical report as well.

Computer science table (CS Table) is a weekly meeting of Grinnell College community members (students, faculty, staff, etc.) interested in discussing topics related to computing and computer science. CS Table meets Tuesdays from 12:00-12:45 in JRC 224C. Students on meal plans, faculty, and staff are expected to cover the cost of their meals. Visitors to the College and students not on meal plans can charge their meals to the department.

CS Table / CSC 295, October 15: Internet voting

stone — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:54:24 +0000

This Friday at CS Table, we'll talk about the possible use of the Internet as a medium for casting ballots in elections in the United States. Here are some readings to inform and point up the discussion:

ACE Project. Internet voting.
Urbina, Ian. States move to allow overseas and military voters to cast ballots by Internet. The New York Times, May 8, 2010.
Epstein, Jeremy. DC Internet voting trial intermediate results. Risks digest, October 1, 2010.
Halderman, J. Alex. Hacking the D.C. Internet voting pilot. Freedom to tinker, October 5, 2010.
Basch, Michelle. D.C. voting pilot program filled with security holes. WTOP.com, October 8, 2010.
Mercuri, Rebecca. Rebecca Mercuri's statement on electronic voting. 2007.

As usual, we'll meet at noon or a little after, in Rosenfield 224A.