Poorvi L. Vora Research: Voting

Poorvi L. Vora - Research: Voting

This research funded in part by past award NSF grant IIS 0505510 (2005-2006) and current awards NSF grant CNS 0831149 (2008-2011), NSF CNS 0937267 (2009-2012) and NSF CNS 1137973 (2011-2012).

The publications in "Measuring the Performance of Voting Systems" are also listed as part of my applied information theory research.

End-to-End Voting Systems:

David Chaum, Alex Florescu, Mridul Nandi, Stefan Popoveniuc, Jan Rubio, Poorvi L. Vora and Filip Zagórski Paperless Independently-Verifiable Voting. VoteID 2011, Tallinn, Estonia, 28-30 September 2011.

Richard Carback, David Chaum, Jeremy Clark, Aleksander Essex, Travis Mayberry, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald L. Rivest, Emily Shen, Alan T. Sherman, Poorvi L. Vora. Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy. USENIX Security 2010, Washington, D.C., 11-13 August, 2010.

David Chaum, Richard T. Carback, Jeremy Clark, Aleksander Essex, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald L. Rivest, Peter Y. A. Ryan, Emily Shen, Alan T. Sherman, and Poorvi L. Vora. Scantegrity II: End-to-End Verifiability by Voters of Optical Scan Elections Through Confirmation Codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, special issue on electronic voting, vol. 4, no. 4, part I, pp. 611-627, December 2009

Alan T. Sherman, Richard Carback, David Chaum, Jeremy Clark, Aleksander Essex, Paul S. Herrnson, Travis Mayberry, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald L. Rivest, Emily Shen, Bimal Sinha, Poorvi Vora, Scantegrity Mock Election at Takoma Park. EVOTE2010, Bregenz, Austria, 21-24 July 2010.
- A summary was first presented as a position paper at NIST End-to-End Voting Systems Workshop, Washington DC, October 13-14, 2009, with the author list: Alan T. Sherman, Richard Carback, David Chaum, Jeremy Clark, John Conway, Aleksander Essex, Paul S. Herrnson, Travis Mayberry, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald L. Rivest, Anne Sergeant, Emily Shen, Bimal Sinha, Poorvi Vora.

David Chaum, Stefan Popoveniuc, Poorvi L. Vora. eTegrity and ePunchScan. NIST End-to-End Voting Systems Workshop, Washington DC, October 13-14, 2009

David Chaum, Aleks Essex, Richard Carback, Jeremy Clark, Stefan Popoveniuc, Alan T. Sherman, Poorvi Vora. Scantegrity: End-to-End Voter Verifiable Optical-Scan Voting. IEEE Security and Privacy, Vol 6., No. 3, pp. 40-46, May/June 2008

David Chaum, Jeroen van de Graaf, Peter Y. A. Ryan and Poorvi L. Vora. Secret Ballot Elections with Unconditional Integrity. Also available as Report 2007/270, cryptology eprint archive.

Poorvi L. Vora. David Chaum's Voter Verification using Encrypted Paper Receipts. IACR eprint archive, no. 2005/050. Submitted 20 Feb., 2005.

Voting System Evaluation:

Ben Hosp and Poorvi L. Vora. An Information-Theoretic Model of Voting Systems. Mathematical and Computer Modelling. Special issue on: Mathematical Modeling of Voting Systems and Elections: Theory and Applications. Vol. 48, nos.9-10, pp. 1628-1645, Nov 2008.
- An early draft was presented at both VSRW 2006 , Washington, D.C., 8-9 June 2006 and WOTE 2006 , Cambridge, UK, 29-30 June, 2006.

Lillie Coney, Joseph L. Hall, Poorvi L. Vora, David Wagner. Towards a Privacy Measurement Criterion for Voting Systems. National Conference on Digital Government Research, Atlanta, May 2005.

P.L. Vora, B. Adida, R. Bucholz, D. Chaum, D.L. Dill, D. Jefferson, D.W. Jones, W. Lattin, A.D. Rubin, M.I. Shamos, and M. Yung. Evaluation of Voting Systems. Inside Risks Column. Communications of the ACM, vol. 47, no. 11, November 2004.

Framework and Definitions:

Stefan Popoveniuc, John Kelsey, Andrew Regenscheid, Poorvi Vora. Performance Requirements for End-to-End Verifiable Elections. EVT/WOTE 2010, Washington, D.C., 9-10 August, 2010.

Stefan Popoveniuc and Poorvi L. Vora. A framework for secure electronic voting. Cryptologia vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 236-257, 2010
- An earlier, very similar version was presented at WOTE 08, Leuven, Belgium, 22-23 July, 2008

Other Work:

Mridul Nandi, Stefan Popoveniuc and Poorvi L. Vora. Stamp-It: A Method for Enhancing the Universal Verifiability of E2E Voting Systems. ICISS 2010, Gandhinagar, India, 15-19 December 2010.

David Chaum, Ben Hosp, Stefan Popoveniuc and Poorvi L. Vora. Accessible Voter Verifiability. Cryptologia, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 283-291, July 2009.

Rahul Simha and Poorvi L. Vora. Vote Verification using Hard AI Problems. Journal of Information Assurance and Security, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 270-278, 2008.
- This protocol was first presented in Vote Verification using CAPTCHA-like Primitives at WOTE 07, Ottawa, Canada, 20-21 June, 2007

Stefan Popoveniuc and Poorvi L. Vora. Secure voting using infected computers. 8th Annual Security Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2009
- A very similar version was presented as Remote ballot casting with Captchas. WISSEC, 2008.

Selected Invited Presentations

ID-Trust 2010, Panel: End-to-End and Internet Voting Independently-Verifiable Secret-Ballot Elections, April 2010

Hewlett-Packard Labs., Princeton, March 2010

Information Systems Seminar, Princeton University, March 2010

Dagstuhl seminar Frontiers of Electronic Voting, July 2007.

NSF Washington Area Trustworthy Systems Hour (WATSH) October 2004

DIMACS Workshop on Electronic Voting, Rutgers University, Citizen-Verified Voting May 2004

Presentations by my Undergraduate Students

Jan Michael Rubio, Ben Hosp, Poorvi L. Vora. Comparing Privacy Properties of Mixnet Audits used by End-to-End Voting Systems, Argonne Undergraduate Symposium, Argonne National Laboratory, 13 November 2009.

Alex Florescu, Stefan Popoveniuc, Poorvi L. Vora. Accessible Voting Interface Using an Interactive Voice System Model, Argonne Undergraduate Symposium, Argonne National Laboratory, 13 November 2009.

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