Computers and elections - reflections on not trusting distrust
Computers and elections - reflections on not trusting distrust
This talk will survey election verification efforts with a focus on Australia. She will describe the options for using statistical methods to verify election results, including our complete solution for single-member preferential elections ("Instant runoff voting" or IRV) and some best-effort developments on the multi-winner proportional case ("Single Transferable Vote" or STV). She will also describe some recent work demonstrating vulnerabilities affecting both privacy and integrity in the ACT's EVACS paperless electronic voting system. If time permits, She will discuss complex election verification elsewhere, such as Colorado and Belgium.
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Melbourne (AEDT) : 29 Oct 2024 11:00 AM
Japan (JST) : 29 Oct 2024 9:00 AM
China (CST) : 29 Oct 2024 8:00 AM
India (IST) : 29 Oct 2024 5:30 AM
Central Europe (CET) : 29 Oct 2024 1:00 AM
New York (EDT) : 28 Oct 2024 8:00 PM
Los Angeles (PDT) : 28 Oct 2024 5:00 PM
Webinar passcode: 459467 (if asked when joining the seminar)
About the speaker
CEO of Thinking Cybersecurity Pty Ltd, Chairperson of Democracy Developers Ltd, and A/Prof (Adj.) at ANU
Vanessa Teague's research focuses primarily on cryptographic methods for achieving security and privacy, particularly for issues of public interest such as election integrity and the protection of government data. She was part of the team (with Chris Culnane and Ben Rubinstein) who discovered the easy re-identification of doctors and patients in the Medicare/PBS open dataset released by the Australian Department of Health. She has co-designed numerous protocols for improved election integrity in e-voting systems, and co-discovered serious weaknesses in the cryptography of deployed e-voting systems in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Switzerland. She lives and works on Wurundjeri land in Southeastern Australia (near Melbourne). In 2023 she founded Democracy Developers Ltd, an Australian not-for-profit that builds open-source software for supporting democracy.