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Voting And Registration Technology Issues: Lessons From 2008, S. Candice Hoke, David Jefferson
Voting And Registration Technology Issues: Lessons From 2008, S. Candice Hoke, David Jefferson
Law Faculty Contributions to Books
This chapter reviews the 2008 field performance and the scientific assessments of both voting systems and the statewide voter-registration databases. The federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) mandated each of these technologies. Despite definitive scientific studies that documented grave security deficiencies that can cause voting systems to produce inaccurate vote tallies and “winners” who actually had fewer votes, these systems continue to be deployed. The Chapter traces the regrettable decisions on election technologies to a poorly designed regulatory structure and staffing, which continue to underweight and misunderstand security issues in election technologies.
Resolving The Unexpected In Elections: Election Officials' Options, S. Candice Hoke, Matt Bishop, Mark Graff, David Jefferson, Sean Peisert
Resolving The Unexpected In Elections: Election Officials' Options, S. Candice Hoke, Matt Bishop, Mark Graff, David Jefferson, Sean Peisert
Law Faculty Reports and Comments
This paper seeks to assist election officials and their lawyers in effectively handling the technical issues that can be difficult to understand and analyze, allowing them to protect themselves and the public interest from unfair accusations, inaccuracies in results, and conspiracy theories. The paper helps to empower officials to recognize which types of voting system events and indicators need a more structured analysis and what steps to take to set up the evaluations (or forensic assessments) using computer experts.