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STAR-Vote: A Secure, Transparent, Auditable, and Reliable Voting System

Authors: 

Susan Bell, Office of the Travis County Clerk; Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research; Michael D. Byrne, Rice University; Dana DeBeauvoir, Office of the Travis County Clerk; Bryce Eakin, Independent Researcher; Gail Fisher, Office of the Travis County Clerk; Philip Kortum, Rice University; Neal McBurnett, ElectionAudits; Julian Montoya and Michelle Parker, Office of the Travis County Clerk; Olivier Pereira, Université Catholique de Louvain; Philip B. Stark, University of California, Berkeley; Dan S. Wallach, Rice University; Michael Winn, Office of the Travis County Clerk

Abstract: 

STAR-Vote is a collaboration between a number of academics and the Travis County (Austin), Texas elections office, which currently uses a DRE voting system and previously used an optical scan voting system. STAR-Vote represents a rare opportunity for a variety of sophisticated technologies, such as end-to-end cryptography and risk limiting audits, to be designed into a new voting system, from scratch, with a variety of real world constraints, such as election-day vote centers that must support thousands of ballot styles and run all day in the event of a power failure. This paper describes the current design of STAR-Vote which is now largely settled and whose development will soon begin.

Susan Bell, Office of the Travis County Clerk

Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research

Michael D. Byrne, Rice University

Dana Debeauvoir, County Clerk, Travis County, Texas

Bryce Eakin, Independent Consultant

Philip Kortum, Rice University

Neal McBurnett, ElectionAudits

Olivier Pereira, Université catholique de Louvain

Philip B. Stark, University of California, Berkeley

Dan S. Wallach, Rice University

Gail Fisher, Office of the Travis County Clerk

Julian Montoya, Office of the Travis County Clerk

Michelle Parker, Office of the Travis County Clerk

Michael Winn, Office of the Travis County Clerk

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {179225,
author = {Susan Bell and Josh Benaloh and Michael D. Byrne and Dana Debeauvoir and Bryce Eakin and Philip Kortum and Neal McBurnett and Olivier Pereira and Philip B. Stark and Dan S. Wallach and Gail Fisher and Julian Montoya and Michelle Parker and Michael Winn},
title = {{STAR-Vote}: A Secure, Transparent, Auditable, and Reliable Voting System},
booktitle = {2013 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE 13)},
year = {2013},
address = {Washington, D.C.},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/evtwote13/workshop-program/presentation/bell},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug,
}
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