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E-Voting And Forensics: Prying Open The Black Box, Candice Hoke, Matt Bishop, Mark Graff, Sean Peisert, David Jefferson
E-Voting And Forensics: Prying Open The Black Box, Candice Hoke, Matt Bishop, Mark Graff, Sean Peisert, David Jefferson
S. Candice Hoke
Over the past six years, the nation has moved rapidly from punch cards and levers to electronic voting systems. These new systems have occasionally presented election officials with puzzling technical irregularities. The national experience has included unexpected and unexplained incidents in each phase of the election process: preparations, balloting, tabulation, and reporting results. Quick technical or managerial assessment can often identify the cause of the problem, leading to a simple and effective solution. But other times, the cause and scope of anomalies cannot be determined. In this paper, we describe the application of a model of forensics to the types …
E-Voting And Forensics: Prying Open The Black Box, Candice Hoke, Sean Peisert, Matt Bishop, Mark Graff, David Jefferson
E-Voting And Forensics: Prying Open The Black Box, Candice Hoke, Sean Peisert, Matt Bishop, Mark Graff, David Jefferson
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Over the past six years, the nation has moved rapidly from punch cards and levers to electronic voting systems. These new systems have occasionally presented election officials with puzzling technical irregularities. The national experience has included unexpected and unexplained incidents in each phase of the election process: preparations, balloting, tabulation, and reporting results. Quick technical or managerial assessment can often identify the cause of the problem, leading to a simple and effective solution. But other times, the cause and scope of anomalies cannot be determined. In this paper, we describe the application of a model of forensics to the types …
Anti-Corruption Principle, The, Zephyr Teachout
Anti-Corruption Principle, The, Zephyr Teachout
Faculty Scholarship
There is a structural anti-corruption principle, akin to federalism or the separation-of-powers principle, embedded in the Constitution. The Constitution was designed, in large part, to protect against corruption. This structural principle - like the other structural principles - should inform how judges "do" modern political process cases. This paper documents the corruption concerns at the Constitutional convention in detail. It then examines how the modern Supreme Courts' conception of corruption is fractured and ahistorical, and has led to an incoherent jurisprudence. Instead of starting with Buckley v. Valeo, as so many modern cases do, the Court should return to the …