Subject: Re: [EL] Latest vote counts give edge to Prosser - JSOnline.mobi
From: Candice Hoke
Date: 4/8/2011, 1:22 PM
To: "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>

An e-voting election forensics guide written for non-technical election officials and their lawyers can be found here: 

http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/notes/2008-forensic/index.html

Resolving the Unexpected in Elections: Election Officials’ Options

--  Co-authored by 4 premier computer scientists, including one who co-led the California voting system study, and 2 national security computer scientists.   Several had worked directly with election officials in live elections +/or as technical consultants to a Secretary of State. 

--  Provides an introduction to the technical incidents that the voting systems can sustain, and their indicators (that some might ignore as inconsequential). 

-- Attempts to educate, and empower election officials (and their lawyers) to deal with finicky voting systems to produce accurate, reliable results even in contentious election contexts.   

-- The ABA posted it on its election information homepage during the 2008 cycle, and some Sections distributed it to their members. 

--> Includes an Appendix to all the major scientific studies of voting systems that had been conducted by 2008, with links.  These often include Executive Summaries written for the non-technically trained reader.


Almost all voting systems currently deployed in elections were subjects of published scientific studies gathered in the Appendix.  The vast proportion of voting systems used today have not been certified by the EAC under the federal voting system guidelines required by HAVA. 




Professor Candice Hoke
Founding Director, Center for Election Integrity
Law School, Cleveland State University