California Top-to-Bottom Review: Overview of Red Team Reports (PDF)
As part of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s top-to-bottom review of the voting machines certified for use in California, researchers at the University of California conducted rigorous testing to try and compromise the systems’ accuracy, security, and integrity. In an overview of the teams’ findings, Principal Investigator Matt Bishop highlights issues discovered with each of the systems and makes recommendations for steps to be taken.

Read the report here (PDF).
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Post-Election Audits: Restoring Trust in Elections (PDF) | AUGUST 2007
Lawrence Norden (NYU), Aaron Burnstein (UC Berkeley), Joseph Lorenzo Hall (UC Berkeley), and Margaret Chen (NYU), Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law
In this report, researchers from the Brennan Center and the Samuelson Clinic survey current literature on post-election audits and make recommendations for future audit policy.
Election Reform Newsletter, Issue #40 | NOVEMBER 7, 2007
AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
Usability Review of the Diebold DRE System for Four Counties in the State of Maryland (PDF) | DECEMBER 2002
Benjamin Bederson and Paul Herrnson, Center for American Politics and Citizenship, University of Maryland
After Maryland adopted new Diebold voting machines. the authors conducted field testing on them and offer practical suggestions to improve access and reliability.
Playing Games With Democracy (PDF) | OCTOBER 2004
Tova Andrea Wang, The Century Foundation
in advance of the 2004 general election, Wang examines a number of election reform issues, with particular emphasis on registration procedures, provisional balloting, and voting technology.
Auditing Technology for Electronic Voting Machines (PDF) | MAY 2005
Sharon B. Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In this paper, Cohen uses a field experiment to compare the effectiveness of paper versus audio vote verification trails and finds that participants were approximately ten times as likely to notice an error in an audio trail as in a paper trail.
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