Browsing Publications and Working Papers by Author "Selker, Ted"
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An Active Approach to Voting Verification
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-05)As our voting systems have come to rely more deeply on computer technology there have been great opportunities to improve the voting process, however, recently computer scientists and the general public have become wary ... -
Certification and Voting Software: Position Statement
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-04-20)Computers are important in every aspect of modern life. Automative tabulating machines are designed to be the most consistent and reliable counting approach invented. Still, questions of reliability, security and auditability ... -
Orienting Graphical User Interfaces Reduces Errors: The Low Error Voting Interface
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-02)This paper demonstrates opportunities for reducing errors with orienting graphical interfaces for voting. We have built many interfaces to explore opportunities for keeping voters aware of selections they have made and are ... -
Processes Can Improve Electronic Voting: A Case Study of An Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-09-07)Across the United States, I have personally watched hundreds of precincts vote since 2001. Most recently, I traveled to Reno/Sparks, Nevada to observe the rollout of the Sequoia Direct record electronic voting systems with ... -
Residual Votes Attributable to Technology: An Assessment of the Reliability of Existing Voting Equipment
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2001-03-30)American elections are conducted using a hodge-podge of different voting technologies: paper ballots, lever machines, punch cards, optically scanned ballots, and electronic machines. And the technologies we use change ... -
The SAVE System: Secure Architecture for Voting Electronically: Existing Technology, with Built-in Redundancy, Enables Reliability
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-01-04)Existing technology is capable of yielding secure, reliable, and auditable voting systems. This system outlines an architecture based on redundancy at each stage of the ballot submission process that is resistant to external ... -
Security Vulnerabilities and Problems with VVPT
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-04)A proposed Voter Verifiable Paper Trail (VVPT) includes a printed ballot as a receipt that a voter can view to verify their vote before leaving an electronic voting machine. This method is also supposed to insure the ... -
Study Shows Ballot Design and Voter Preparation Could Have Eliminated Sarasota Florida Voting Errors
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-02-06)Election results showed extremely inconsistent voting rates for two high profile races in the Florida counties of Sarasota, Charlotte, and Sumter on November 7, 2006. The expected missing selections for these races were ... -
Testimony on Voter Verification
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-06-21)In the past five years, following the 2000 Florida election fiasco, the voting technologies used in the United States have undergone a significant change. The use of direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines has ... -
The Voter Verifiable Audio Audit Transcript Trail (VVAATT)
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-09-29)The debate about verifiable voter audit trails has prematurely narrowed into two camps: those who categorically deny the need for any back-up records and those who advocate the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). ... -
Who Does Better with a Big Interface? Improving Voting Performance of Reading for Disabled Voters
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-02)This study shows how ballot interfaces variably affect the voting performance of people with different abilities. An interface with all information viewable simultaneously might either help orient or overwhelm a voter, ...
