Towards publishable event logs that reveal touchscreen faults

  • Authors:
  • Andrea L. Mascher;Paul T. Cotton;Douglas W. Jones

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa;Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa;Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

  • Venue:
  • EVT/WOTE'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Electronic voting technology/workshop on trustworthy elections
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Federal standards require that electronic voting machines log information about the voting system behavior to support post-election audits and investigations. Our study examines interface issues commonly reported in touch-screen voting systems (miscalibration, insensitivity, etc.) and the voter interaction data that can be collected to allow investigation of these issues while at the same time preserving the right to a secret ballot. We also provide empirically derived metrics that can detect these issues by analyzing these data.