Can Computer Scientist Dream Team Clean Up E-Voting?

An entry in ACM TechNews states that the Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE) has received a $7.5 million National Science Foundation award to bring the latest research, insight, and innovation from the lab to the voting booth making e-voting systems mores secure.

The organization of computer experts from across the country and academic disciplines find areas that need additional research and determine how to apply existing technology and research findings to voting systems.

One such tool is the open source AttackDog, a threat modeling system developed by David Dill, Co-PI and Professor at Stanford University. According to Dill, AttackDog is a good example of how the ACCURATE project uses computer science tools and techniques to to help local officials improve the security of their elections.

"It's using computers to get a grip on problems that are too complex for the mind to understand unaided," Dill says.

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