Sean Peisert

Research

Electronic Voting and E-Voting Forensics

We work closely with the Marin County Registrar of Voters' office and the Yolo County Clerk-Recorder's office.

We also collaborate closely with Lee Osterweil, Lori Clarke, and their graduate students in the LASER Lab at UMass Amherst.

Researchers at or affiliated with UC Davis who are currently involved are:

• Matt Bishop (PI; UC Davis)
• Michael Clifford (UC Davis)
• Sophie Engle (University of San Francisco)
• Sean Peisert (CoPI; UC Davis)
• Anand Sarkar (UC Davis)

Current sponsor: National Science Foundation CCF-0905503, CCF-1049738

More information on the UC Davis E-Voting page

Artifacts and full fault trees available at UMass Amherst's pages.

Publications resulting from this project:

"Modeling Faults to Improve Election Process Robustness"

Borislava I. Simidchieva, Sophie J. Engle, Michael Clifford, Alicia Clay Jones, Sean Peisert, Matt Bishop, Lori A. Clarke, and Leon J. Osterweil,

Proceedings of the 2010 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/ Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE),

Washinton, D.C., August 11–13, 2010.

"Quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes? A New Paradigm for Analyzing Security Paradigms"

Sean Peisert, Matt Bishop, Laura Corriss, and Steven J. Greenwald,

Proceedings of the 2009 New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), pp. 133–144

The Queen's College, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 8–11, 2009.

"E-Voting and Forensics: Prying Open the Black Box"

Matt Bishop, Sean Peisert, Candice Hoke, Mark Graff, and David Jefferson,

Proceedings of the 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE),

Montreal, Canada, August 10–11, 2009.

"Vote Selling, Voter Anonymity, and Forensic Logging of Electronic Voting Machines"

Sean Peisert, Matt Bishop, and Alec Yasinsac,

Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Decision Technologies and Service Sciences Track, Digital Forensics Pedagogy and Foundational Research Activity Minitrack (Nominated for Best Paper Award),

Waikoloa, HI, January 5–8, 2009.

"Resolving the Unexpected in Elections: Election Officials' Options"

Matt Bishop, Mark Graff, Candice Hoke, David Jefferson, and Sean Peisert

October 8, 2008.

Currently distributed by the Center For Election Excellence and the American Bar Association.

Public comments are welcome, via this form.

American Bar Association Buzz: "Resolving the Unexpected in Elections," October 2008.

Pew Center on the States electionlineWeekly: "Resolving the Unexpected in Elections: Election Officials' Options," October 23, 2008.

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