Elections in the digital world
Question whether elections could fully go digital. Continue reading
Civic Design Bibliography | voting-trends
Internet elections: unsafe in any home?
Explored online voting systems and countries with internet voting election options while launching a project to design an electronic voting system for its 2011 election. Continue reading
Assistive technology for the voting process
Reviewed the nature of the voting process, what functional abilities one needs to carry out tasks associated with the process, and what AT products are used by people with disabilities that provide them the functional ability to perform these tasks independently. Continue reading
Making ballot language understandable to voters
Discussed and offered examples of best practices in giving instructions and also found that most ballots in the United States violated these best practices. Continue reading
What older adults can teach us about designing better ballots
Describes potential problems related to age in order improve performance in voting and examined the ability of voters to cast votes accurately, timely, and efficiently. Continue reading
Defining the barriers to political participation for individuals with disabilities
An overview of disabilities in the United States as they relate to political participation and its barriers. Continue reading
Universal access in e-voting for the blind
Proposes a multimodal approach to voting systems that is easy to use and trustworthy for all populations to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction of the voter experience. Continue reading
Accessible voting: one machine, one vote for everyone
Reviews Prime III, an open-source multi-modal electronic voting system that grants equal access, privacy, and secure voting for people with disabilities without the assistance of others. Continue reading
T-DRE: a hardware trusted computing base for direct recording electronic vote machines
Evaluated Direct Recording Voting Machines (T-DRE) and its security systems concerning voting privacy, verifiability, signed-code execution, and resilience. Continue reading