E-Voting News and Analysis, from the Experts

The Committee for Electronic Voting - under the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academies’ National Research Council (NRC) - recently issued a call for papers for input on what questions policy makers should be thinking about given the current state of electronic voting. Here are the whitepapers submitted (listed alphabetically by author/organization):

• Making Each Vote Count: A Research Agenda for Electronic Voting, report of an AAAS workshop on electronic voting, October 2004
• The Need for Usability of Electronic Voting Systems: Questions for Voters and Policy Makers, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), U.S. Public Policy Committee
• Voting, Vote Capture and Vote Counting Symposium: Electronic Voting Best Practices, Jean Camp, Allan Friedman, and Warigia Bowman, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, June 2004
• Electronic Voting Machines in South Carolina, Duncan Buell and Carter Bays, University of South Carolina
• Electronic Voting, David Dill and Will Doherty, Verified Voting Foundation
• Accessibility and Auditability in Electronic Voting, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Voting Machines and the Standards-Setting Process, Eddan Katz and Rebecca Bolin, Yale University School of Law
• Putting People First: The Importance of User-Centered Design and Universal Usability to Voting Systems, Sharon Laskowski, National Institute of Standards and Technology; and Whitney Quesenbery, Whitney Interactive Design LLC
• Illustrative Risks to the Public in the use of Computer Systems and Related Technology, Excerpt: Election Problem Cases as of [November] 25, 2004, Peter G. Neumann, SRI International
• Preliminary Analysis of E-Voting Problems Highlights Need for Heightened Standards and Testing, Deirdre Mulligan and Joseph Lorenzo Hall, University of California, Berkeley
• Electronic Voting Systems: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid, Barbara Simons