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A Modular Voting Architecture ("Frogs")
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2001-08-18)
We present a “modular voting architecture” in which “vote generation” is performed separately from “vote casting.”
The Complexity of the California Recall Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2003-11-06)
The October 7, 2003 California Recall Election strained California’s direct democracy. In recent California politics there has not been a statewide election conducted on such short notice; county election officials were ...
Waiting in Line to Vote
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-07-28)
Waiting in line to vote is the most visible sign of the administrative friction of managing elections.
The visibility of long lines makes them a convenient symbol for those who seek to improve election administration. ...
Whose Absentee Votes Are Counted?
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-02-01)
Absentee voting is becoming more prevalent throughout the United States. While there has been some research focused on who votes by absentee ballot, little research has considered another important question about absentee ...
American Elections: A Critical Moment for Research and Reform
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-12-03)
The 2004 election provided important lessons regarding the performance of voting technology, about continuing problems with voter registration and provisional balloting, issues with procedures and poll site voting practices, ...
Preliminary Voting -- Prevoting
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-08-06)
We introduce the notion of preliminary voting, or pre-voting, wherein a voter deposits—perhaps over the Internet—a preliminary vote or prevote with election authorities at some time before the close of elections. Prevotes ...
Encrypted Receipts for Voter-Verified Elections Using Homomorphic Encryption
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-09)
Voters are now demanding the ability to verify that their votes are cast and counted as intended. Most existing cryptographic election protocols do not treat the voter as a computationally-limited entity separate from the ...
Application of Lean Management Principles to Election Systems
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-02)
Lean was first adopted as a management technique for improving results in manufacturing environments. It is based on the 5 principles of identifying the Value to be created, mapping the Value-Stream (incremental addition ...
Who Should Run Our Elections? Public Opinion About Election Governance in the United States
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-02)
Much has been said since the 2000 presidential election regarding the administration of elections in the United States, particularly in regards to how election administrators are selected and to whom they are responsive. ...
Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted?
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-07-17)
Expanding the large literature which investigates the characteristics of citizen and voter trust in government we analyze the heretofore neglected topic of voter trust in the electoral process. In this paper, we present ...