Resources

Here is a list of some of the resources that support the story in this book. In some cases, I’ve utilized the web site http://tinyurl.com that produces very small web addresses that are easy to type in, in the place of long web addresses that are unwieldy. The tinyurl will redicrect your browser to the original page.
  1. Web site for this book: http://BraveNewBallot.org.
    This web site will contain information about Brave New Ballot, as well as links to the resources that are included here.
  2. Verified Voting http://verifiedvoting.org.
    This organization was founded by Professor David Dill of Stanford. It was established to make sure that election systems are reliable and publicly verifiable.
  3. The NSF ACCURATE e-voting center: http://accurate-voting.org/.
    A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE) is a collaborative project involving six institutions. ACCURATE investigates software architectures, tamper-resistant hardware, cryptographic protocols and verification systems as applied to electronic voting systems. Additionally, ACCURATE examines system usability and how public policy, in combination with technology, can better safeguard voting nationwide.
  4. Doug Jones’ web page on voting & elections: http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/.
    This is one of the most complete and comprehensive resources for information on electronic voting and security and transparency in elections. This is perhaps the best jumping off site for someone interested in the issues.
  5. The US Election Assistance Commission: http://www.eac.gov/
    This commission was established by the Help America Vote Act to serve as a national clearinghouse and resource for information and review of procedures with respect to the administration of Federal elections.
  6. The California Voter Foundation: http://www.calvoter.org/
    The California Voter Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization promoting and applying the responsible use of technology to improve the democratic process. It was founded in 1994 by Kim Alexander.
  7. The Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project: http://www.vote.caltech.edu/
    This project was established by the presidents of the two universities to prevent the problems that plagued the 2000 election from repeating. The project has since produced several reports that tackle many issues related to electronic voting.
  8. The SERVE report: http://servesecurityreport.org.
    This report, A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), caused the undersecretary of defense to cancel the SERVE project for voting over the Internet for military and overseas civilians.
  9. The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP): http://fvap.gov/
    This organization is part of the Department of Defense and is chartered with helping military and overseas civilians vote. FVAP ran the SERVE program before it was cancelled.
  10. The SAIC report: click here
    This is the report produced by SAIC on their analysis of the Diebold voting machine. The only version available to this date is the one redacted by the state of Maryland. Still, the unredacted portion of the report highlights serious security problems and called the machines highly vulnerable to compromise.
  11. The RABA report: http://www.raba.com/press/TA_Report_AccuVote.pdf
    This is the report produced by the company, RABA, on their red-team analysis of the Diebold voting machine. Their report confirms many of the security problems we identified and also points out some new vulnerabilities.
  12. Diebold’s rebuttal to our report: http://www2.diebold.com/checksandbalances.pdf
    This is Diebold’s rebuttal to our report. It is full of technical errors. Our response to this rebuttal is online at http://avirubin.com/vote/response.html.
  13. Diebold’s press release: http://www.diebold.com/news/newsdisp.asp?id=3003
    This is the self-congratulatory press release that Diebold put out on September 24, 2003, after the SAIC review found serious vulnerabilities in the machines.
  14. Not all of the news stories referenced in the book are still available online, but here are links to some of the ones that are.
  15. Votehere’s web page: http://votehere.net/
    This is the company whose advisory board created an unpleasant experience for me with allegations of conflict of interest. They develop novel cryptographic-based voting schemes.
  16. Electionline: http://electionline.org/
    Electionline.org is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy web site with a lot of up-to-date election information. The organization’s director is Doug Chapin, who speaks widely on issues related to electronic voting.
  17. The Election Center: http://www.electioncenter.org/
    The election center whose executive director is Doug Lewis, is also known as the National Association of Election Officials. The center conducts conferences for election officials and vendors.
  18. The National Committee for Voting Integrity: http://votingintegrity.org/
    From their web site: “The National Committee for Voting Integrity (NCVI) brings together experts on voting issues from across the country to promote constructive dialogue among computer scientists, elections administrators, policymakers, the media and the public on the best methods for achieving a voter verified balloting system. In keeping with the goal of public election administration, election systems must preserve vote accuracy, insure privacy, and the proper tabulation of the voter's intent regardless of his or her physical condition, language of origin, or literacy ability.”
  19. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA): http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm
    The landmark legislation that was enacted in 2002 that appropriated almost $4 billion to the states to upgrade their voting machines to electronic voting. This legislation is responsible, to a large degree, for the rapid rush to electronic voting, before the technology was ready.
  20. Here are the web sites of some of the primary vendors of electronic voting equipment:
  21. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): http://www.eff.org/
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a group of lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries working to protect personal rights in the electronic age. Led by their legal director, Cindy Cohn, this organization represented my research team pro bono when we received legal threats from Diebold.
  22. Black Box Voting: http://blackboxvoting.org/
    This site belongs to activist Bev Harris, who discovered the Diebold source code on the Internet. It contains information, sometimes sensationalized, about the politics around electronic voting.
  23. Congressman Rush Holt’s web page: http://rushholt.com/
    Congressman Holt from New Jersey proposed legislation that required voter verified paper ballots and publicly reviewable source code for voting machines.


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