WORKSHOP SESSIONS

Session papers are available to workshop registrants immediately and to everyone beginning July 28, 2008.

All sessions will take place in Regency 2 unless otherwise noted.

Opening Remarks

Program Co-Chairs: David Dill, Stanford University; Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington

Invited Talk

Designing Ballots to Prevent Bias: How the Order of Candidate Names Determined Who Was Elected President
Jon Krosnick, Stanford University

Although the 2000 U.S. elections brought into the spotlight many shortcomings of the American voting process and inspired many reform efforts, remarkably little attention has been devoted to an important aspect of ballot design that has almost certainly determined the outcome of many past elections: the order of candidates' names. Professor Jon Krosnick has been conducting research on this phenomenon for more than 10 years, documenting its existence in hundreds of elections around the country and identifying the conditions under which it is most likely to occur. Some of his newest evidence suggests that the use of touch-screens vs. punch cards vs. conventional paper ballots influences the size of the name order effect.

Jon Krosnick is the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Communication, Political Science, and (by courtesy) Psychology at Stanford University. For 25 years, Dr. Krosnick has conducted research exploring how the American public's political attitudes are formed, change, and shape thinking and action. He is co-principal investigator of the American National Election Study, the nation's preeminent academic project exploring voter decision-making and political campaign effects. A world-renowned expert on questionnaire design and survey research methodology, he has conducted survey studies of Americans' attitudes in collaboration with ABC News, the Washington Post, Time magazine, and New Scientist magazine. His books include the Handbook of Questionnaire Design; Attitude Strength; Thinking about Politics; and Introduction to Survey Research, Polling, and Data Analysis. He teaches courses on survey methodology around the world at universities, for corporations, and for government agencies; testifies regularly as an expert witness in courts in the U.S. and abroad; and has served as an on-air election-night television commentator and exit poll data analyst.

Auditing and Tallying Session I

Session Chair: Dan Wallach, Rice University

On Auditing Elections When Precincts Have Different Sizes
Javed A. Aslam, Northeastern University; Raluca A. Popa and Ronald L. Rivest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paper in HTML | PDF

Talk slides in PDF

Replayable Voting Machine Audit Logs
Arel Cordero and David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley

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In Defense of Pseudorandom Sample Selection
Joseph A. Calandrino, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten, Princeton University

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New Directions and Reflections on Old Directions

Session Chair: Ben Adida, Harvard University

You Go to Elections with the Voting System You Have: Stop-Gap Mitigations for Deployed Voting Systems
J. Alex Halderman, Princeton University; Eric Rescorla, RTFM, Inc.; Hovav Shacham, University of California, San Diego; David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley

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Administrative and Public Verifiability: Can We Have Both?
Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research

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The Case for Networked Remote Voting Precincts
Daniel R. Sandler and Dan S. Wallach, Rice University

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Talk slides in PDF

Panel

How Can Researchers and Election Officials Better Work Together?
Moderator: Joseph Lorenzo Hall, University of California, Berkeley

Panelists:

• Jeremy Epstein, Software AG & Verified Voting Foundation; Consultant to Kentucky Attorney General on Voting Systems Security
• Elaine Ginnold, Registrar of Voters, Marin County, California
• Gregory Luke, Strumwasser & Woocher LLP
• David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley
• Steve Weir, Registrar of Voters, Contra Cost County, California; President, California Association of Clerks and Election Officials (CACEO)

Auditing and Tallying Session II

Session Chair: Alex Halderman, Princeton University

Pre-Election Testing and Post-Election Audit of Optical Scan Voting Terminal Memory Cards
Seda Davtyan, Sotiris Kentros, Aggelos Kiayias, Laurent Michel, Nicolas Nicolaou, Alexander Russell, Andrew See, Narasimha Shashidhar, and Alexander A. Shvartsman, University of Connecticut

Conventional E-Voting Systems

Session Chair: Joseph Lorenzo Hall, University of California, Berkeley

Modeling and Analysis of Procedural Security in (e)Voting: The Trentino's Approach and Experiences
Komminist Weldemariam, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Trento; Adolfo Villafiorita, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

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Security Evaluation of ES&S Voting Machines and Election Management System
Adam Aviv, Pavol Cerný, Sandy Clark, Eric Cronin, Gaurav Shah, Micah Sherr, and Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania

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Systemic Issues in the Hart InterCivic and Premier Voting Systems: Reflections on Project EVEREST
Kevin Butler and William Enck, The Pennsylvania State University; Harri Hursti; Stephen McLaughlin, The Pennsylvania State University; Patrick Traynor, Georgia Institute of Technology; Patrick McDaniel, The Pennsylvania State University

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Cryptographic Voting Systems

Session Chair: Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research

Analysis, Improvement, and Simplification of Prêt à Voter with Paillier Encryption
Zhe Xia, Steve A. Schneider, and James Heather, University of Surrey, U.K.; Jacques Traoré, France Telecom, Orange Lab

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Scantegrity II: End-to-End Verifiability for Optical Scan Election Systems using Invisible Ink Confirmation Codes
David Chaum; Richard Carback, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Jeremy Clark, University of Waterloo; Aleksander Essex, University of Ottawa; Stefan Popoveniuc, The George Washington University; Ronald L. Rivest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Emily Shen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alan T. Sherman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Coercion-Resistant Tallying for STV Voting
Vanessa Teague, Kim Ramchen, and Lee Naish, The University of Melbourne

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Panel

Technical Monitoring and Other Post-TTBR Interim Strategies
Moderator: David Jefferson, Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Panelists:

• Matt Bishop, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of California at Davis
• Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State
• Candice Hoke, Director, Center for Election Integrity; Associate Professor of Law, Cleveland State University
• Douglas A. Kellner, Co-Chair, New York State Board of Elections
• Tom Stanionis, Director of Technology, Yolo County Clerk/Recorder