Volume 2, Number 1

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Authors of accepted papers for Volume 2, Number 1, presented their work August 18–19, 2014, at EVT/WOTE '14, which was co-located with the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '14). As part of our commitment to open access, this issue of the USENIX Journal of Election Technology and Systems (JETS), and the individual papers presented at the workshop, are free and openly accessible for download below.

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December 2013

Do New Voting Technologies Prevent Fraud? Evidence from Russia

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Max Bader, Leiden University

Widespread concerns exist that new voting technologies invite electoral fraud. In states with a known record of electoral fraud, however, the use of new voting technologies may help reduce the incidence of fraud by automating parts of the voting and counting process. This study shows that the use of optical scan voting systems had a significant effect in terms of fraud reduction during the 2011 legislative election in Russia. This finding has implications for organizations and governments that seek to promote democratic elections in undemocratic states. 

 

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Faster Print on Demand for Prêt à Voter

5:30 pm

Chris Culnane and James Heather, University of Surrey; Rui Joaquim and Peter Y. A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg; Steve Schneider, University of Surrey; Vanessa Teague, University of Melbourne

Printing Prêt à Voter ballots on demand is desirable both for convenience and security. It allows a polling station to serve numerous different ballots, and it avoids many problems associated with the custody of the printouts. This paper describes a new proposal for printing Prêt à Voter ballots on demand. The emphasis is on computational efficiency suitable for real elections, and on very general ballot types.

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