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September 15:
Election protocols
Register to vote.
If you are a U.S. citizen, and you will be 18 by November 4,
you should register now. You may register in your hometown
or in Princeton, either is legal (but you may vote only
in one place).
-
A Brief Illustrated History of Voting,
by Douglas W. Jones, 2001.
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Voting on Paper Ballots,
by Douglas W. Jones, 2003.
- Certification of Andrew W. Appel to the Superior Court of New Jersey, October 14, 2004
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Supplemental Cert. of Andrew W. Appel, October 25, 2004
- Video:
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine,
by Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten, 2006.
September 22
- Gumbel, Steal This Vote, Preface and Chapters 1-9.
- This week and every week:
Optional:
Bring in an interesting article on the topics
of voting, voting technology, voter registration, access to the polls,
etc. Either tell the class
about it, or write about it on the blog, or both.
You can find the article or book in the news or on the Internet;
it can be breaking news, an academic study, an old news article,
whatever.
September 29
October 6
Visit and demonstration by Kevin Chung, president of Avante International Technology, Inc.,
a maker of electronic voting machines.
October 13
October 20
- Appel et al.,
expert report on the security and accuracy of the AVC Advantage. October 17, 2008. For this week, read
Part I (pages 1 to 55)
Part III (page 77 to 89)
Part VIII (140 to 145).
- Shamos, expert report on the security and accuracy of the AVC Advantage.
For this week, read the following paragraphs:
1 to 98; 110 to 136; 219 to 222.
October 27: Midterm break week
Instituted in 1972 upon the demand of the undergraduates,
so they could go home and campaign for their candidates.
November 3
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For this week, read the rest of the Appel report (not including appendices) and the Shamos report.
November 10: The 2004 Election
- Read the newspapers and the web between November 3 and November 10,
bring in all the good stuff you can find.
November 17
- Scantegrity II video (15 minutes).
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Scantegrity II: End-to-End Verifiability for Optical Scan Election Systems using Invisible Ink Confirmation Codes,
by David Chaum, Richard Carback, Jeremy Clark, Aleksander Essex, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald L. Rivest, Peter Y. A. Ryan, Emily Shen, and Alan T. Sherman.
In the Proceedings of the 2007 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT'07), San Jose, California, July 2008.
November 22
- Gaming the Vote, by William Poundstone.
Hill and Wang, 2008. Chapters 1 through 7 only.
December 1
Visit from Stefan Popoveniuc who will demonstrate the
Scantegrity
voting system.
December 8
Optional reading:
Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution, by Gary W. Cox and Jonathan N. Katz, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
January 15
FINAL PAPER DUE January 15th.
The final paper should be about 1500-2000 words. It will not be posted on the public blog. You should submit it to me by e-mail. Submit it in PDF if you have the technology to do that, otherwise in MS-Word format.
You may choose any reasonable topic within the scope of this course.
If you have written about a topic in one blog post, you may still write your final paper on the same topic; but if you have already written two blog posts on some topic, then choose something else for your final paper.
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