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Improving the Security, Transparency and Efficiency of California's 1% Manual Tally Procedures

Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Princeton University - Center for Information Technology Policy; University of California, Berkeley - School of Information

USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop, 2009

Abstract:
California jurisdictions have an extensive history of conducting post-election manual tallies of ballot records; they have performed this type audit since the 1960s when the use of lever and punchcard voting technologies became common statewide. We report findings from studying manual tally procedures in a handful of California counties. Through a combination of iterative procedure development and observation of manual tally activities, we designed new procedures that better promote security, transparency and efficiency. We have since generalized these procedures for use in any California county.

Keywords: e-voting, procedures, auditing, elections,election law, voting technology

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Date posted: February 12, 2009 ; Last revised: February 12, 2009

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Hall, Joseph Lorenzo, Improving the Security, Transparency and Efficiency of California's 1% Manual Tally Procedures (February 11, 2009). USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1341211

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Contact Author) Princeton University - Center for Information Technology Policy ( email ) Sherrerd Hall, 3rd Floor Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08540 United States
University of California, Berkeley - School of Information ( email ) 102 South Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 United States

Abstract

Date posted: February 12, 2009 ; Last revised: February 12, 2009

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Contact Author)