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USS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Systemic Issues in the Hart InterCivic and Premier Voting Systems: Reflections on Project EVEREST
The State of Ohio commissioned the EVEREST study in late summer of 2007. The study participants were charged with an analysis of the usability, stability, and security of all voti...
Kevin R. B. Butler, William Enck, Harri Hursti, St...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On the complexity of schedule control problems for knockout tournaments
Knockout tournaments constitute a common format of sporting events, and also model a specific type of election scheme (namely, sequential pairwise elimination election). In such ...
Thuc Vu, Alon Altman, Yoav Shoham
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 15 days ago
Taking total control of voting systems: firmware manipulations on an optical scan voting terminal
The firmware of an electronic voting machine is typically treated as a “trusted” component of the system. Consequently, it is misconstrued to be vulnerable only to an insider...
Seda Davtyan, Sotiris Kentros, Aggelos Kiayias, La...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
128views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Equilibria of plurality voting with abstentions
In the traditional voting manipulation literature, it is assumed that a group of manipulators jointly misrepresent their preferences to get a certain candidate elected, while the ...
Yvo Desmedt, Edith Elkind
WDAG
1998
Springer
123views Algorithms» more  WDAG 1998»
14 years 1 days ago
Propagation and Leader Election in a Multihop Broadcast Environment
The paper addresses the problemof solving classic distributed algorithmic problems under the practical model of Broadcast Communication Networks. Our main result is a new Leader El...
Israel Cidon, Osnat Mokryn