Innovation & Invention

RAV(Research in Accessible Voting)

Publications on Accessible Voting

1. Making Voting Easier for Disabled and Overseas Voters: Secure Accessible Virtual Voting Infrastructure, Ted Selker, Justin Pelletier. Features cover story, IX Interactions, XXXI.5 Pages 18-23, Sept-Oct 2024.
2. Secure, Accessible, Virtual Voting Infrastructure (SAVVI): Reducing Barriers for Disabled and Overseas Voters, Ted Selker, Justin Pelletier in proceedings of MIPRO,- 46th Convention, Opatija, Croatija, May 2023.
3. Improving Usability and Security of Mail in Ballots, Ted Selker, Enka Blanchard, RoCHI, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ISSN 2501-9422 Oct 2022.
4. Visual Secrets: A recognition-based human security primitive and its use for boardroom voting, Enka Blanchard, Sébastien Bouchard, Ted Selker, International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID, 2022.
5. Phrase-Verified Voting: Verifiable Low-Tech Remote Boardroom Voting. Enka Blanchard, Ryan Robucci,
   Ted Selker, Alan Sherman. Cryptologia, Nov 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2021.1975324 (doi: 10.1080/01611194.2021.1975324)
6. Boardroom Voting: Practical Verifiable Voting with Ballot Privacy Using Low-Tech Cryptography in a Single Room. Enka Blanchard, Ted Selker, Alan T. Sherman, July 29 2020.
7. Cue-Pin-Select, a Secure and Usable Offline Password Scheme. Enka Blanchard, Levi Gabasova, Ted Selker, Eli Sennesh, COMPSAC 2020, Madrid, July 2020.
8. Towards an Empirical Cost Model for Mental Password Algorithms. Enka Blanchard, Ted Selker, Florentin Waligorski. CHI ‘20 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Honolulu Hawaii, Apr 2020.
9. Origami Voting: A Non-Cryptographic Approach to Transparent Ballot Verification. Enka Blanchard, Ted Selker. 5th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting – VOTING’20. Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Feb. 2020.
10. Reflexive Memory Authenticator: A Proposal for Effortless Renewable Biometrics. Enka Blanchard, Siargey Kachanovich, Ted Selker, Florentin Waligorski. Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication – Second International Workshop, ETAA 2019, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Sept 2019.
11. Moving to Client-Sided Hashing for Online Authentication. Enka Blanchard, Xavier Coquand, Ted Selker.9th Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust – STAST 2019. Luxembourg, Sept 2019.
12. Consonant-Vowel-Consonants for Error-Free Code Entry. Enka Blanchard, Leila Gabasova, Ted Selker. HCI
    for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust – First International Conference, HCI-CPT 2019, Part of the 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, July 2019.
13. Improving Voting Technology is Hard: The Trust-Legitimacy-Participation Loop and Related Problems. Enka Blanchard, Ted Selker. 8th Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust – STAST 2018. San Juan PR. Dec. 2018.
14. Improving Security and Usability of Passphrases with Guided Word Choice. Enka Blanchard, Clément Malaingre, Ted Selker. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC 2018, San Juan, PR, USA, Dec. 2018.
15. Créer de tête de Nombreux Mots de Passe Inviolables et inoubliables. Enka Blanchard, Leila Gabasova, Ted Selker, Eli Sennesh. ALGOTEL 2018 – 20èmes Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Téblécommunications. Roscoff France, May 2018.
16. Mots de Passe: Le Choix Humain plus sécurisé Que la Génération Aléatoire. Enka Blanchard, Clément Malaingre, Ted Selker. ALGOTEL 2018 – 20èmes Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications. Roscoff France, May 2018.
17. Polling Place Support Tool; User Interface to Plan and Run Polling Places. Ted Selker, Shama Hoque. Invited Paper. Proceedings HCI International, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 2015
18. Research On Accessible Voting. Ted Selker, Dan Gillette, Linda Avendano, Shama Hoque, Kate Liu, Minh Pham, Mike Vroomen. Final Report to US Government Election Assistance Commission, July 2014.
19. The Art and Science of Studying Election Fraud – Detection, Prevention, and Consequences, edited by Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall, and Susan D. Hyde. Brookings. (Chapter by Ted Selker) Fall 2008.
20. Process Is Technology: Coming to Terms with Systems-Level Problems and Human-Factors Failures with Voting. Presented at WOTE, Ottawa, Canada, June 20-21 2007.
21. A Methodology for Testing Voting Systems. Ted Selker, Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Anna Pandolfo. Journal of Usability Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 5, Nov. 2006.
22. User Experience, Technology, and Fraud Prevention in Voting Systems. Ted Selker. VTP Election Fraud Workshop, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 2006.
23. Augmenting Voting Interfaces to Improve Accessibility and Performance. Jonathan A. Goler, Edwin J. Selker, Lorin F. Wilde. CHI 06 Workshop, Montreal, Canada, Apr. 2006.
24. Voter Removal from Registration List Based on Name Matching is Unreliable. Ted Selker, Alexander Bauer. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Working Paper #32, Jan. 2006.
25. The Technology of Access: Allowing People of Age to Vote for Themselves. Ted Selker. McGeorge law
    Review No. 4, Vol. 38, pp. 1113-1136, Jan 1 2006.
26. North Carolina Voting System Hardware Certification Report. Ted Selker. Dec. 2005.
27. Threat Discussion on Voting System Configuration Issues & Problems. Jeremy Creelan, Dana DeBeauvoir, Douglas Jones, Avi Rubin, Ronald Rivest, Ted Selker, Michael Shamos. Developing an Analysis of Threats to Voting Systems: Workshop Summary, Gaithersburg, Maryland, Oct. 7, 2005.
28. Voting Technology: Election Auditing Is an End-to-End Procedure. Ted Selker. Science, Vol. 308,
    pp. 1873-1874, June 24, 2005.
29. An Active Approach to Voting Verification. Ted Selker, Sharon Cohen. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology
    Project Working Paper #28, http://vote.caltech.edu/media/documents/wps/vtp_wp28.pdf, May 2005.
30. A Day of Poll Watching, Reno and Sparks Nevada. Ted Selker. User Experience Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1,
    Spring 2005.
31. Who Does Better with A Big Interface? Improving Voting Performance of Reading for Disabled Voters. Ted Selker, Jonathan Goler, Lorin Wilde. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Working Paper #24, Feb. 2005.
32. Orienting Graphical User Interfaces Reduces Errors: The Low Error Voting Interface. Ted Selker, Matt Hockenberry, Jonathan Goler, Shawn Sullivan. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Working Paper #23, Feb. 2005.
33. Process Can Improve Electronic Voting: A Case Study of an Election. Ted Selker. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Working Paper #19, Oct. 2004.
34. Fixing the Vote-What Electronic Ballots Can Do for Democracy. Ted Selker. Scientific American, pp. 92-97,
    Oct. 2004.
35. The SAVE System-Secure Architecture for Electronic Voting. Ted Selker, Jon Goler. BT Technology Journal,
    Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 89-19, Oct. 2004.
36. The Voter Verifiable Audio Audit Transcript Trail (VVAATT). Ted Selker. Caltech/MIT Voting
    Technology Project Working Paper #18, Sep. 2004.
37. Old Voting Technologies: Problems and Improvements. Scientific American, Sep. 2004.
38. Ireland First Report of the Commission on Electronic Voting, appendix C; Evaluation of Voting Machine, Peripherals and Software. Richard Sinnott, Ted Selker, Bil Lewis, Brendan Whenlan, James Williams, James McBride. May 2004.
39. Security Vulnerabilities and Problems with Voter Verifiable Paper Trail. Ted Selker, Jonathan Goler. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Working Paper #16, Apr. 2004.
40. Certification and Voting Software: Position Statement. Ted Selker. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Working Paper #15, Apr. 2004.
41. The SAVE System: Secure Architecture for Voting Electronically Existing Technology, with Built-in Redundancy, Enables Reliability. Ted Selker, Jonathan Goler. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
    Working Paper #12, Jan. 2004.
42. Voting: User Experience, Technology and Practice (panel). Ted Selker, Eric A. Fischer, Benjamin B. Bederson, Conny McCormack, Clifford Nass. Extended Abstracts of CHI 03, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, pp. 700-701, Apr. 2003.
43. Voting – What Was, What Could Be. R. Michael Alvarez, S. Ansolabehere, Eric Antonsson, Suki Bruck, Steve Graves, Tom Palfrey, Ron Rivest, Ted Selker, Alex Slocum, Charles S. Stewart. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, July 2001. 

Invited Talks and Seminars on Voting

1. Election Assistance Commission, Roundtable on Accessible Voting Technologies, Washington, DC, Apr. 2009.
2. Invited talk, Ballot Integrity and Prevention of Electoral Corruption. Ash Institute at Harvard University, April 27, 2007.
3. Speaker and emcee, Swiss Symposium on eVoting and eDemocracy. Ted Selker Co-Chair, Washington, DC, Apr. 23, 2007.
4. The Technology of Access: Allowing People of Age to Vote for Themselves. Facilitating Voting as People Age: Implications of Cognitive Impairment, 3 day Symposium, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA, Mar. 22, 2007.
5. Hearing: Testimony to the US House of Representatives Administration Subcommittee on Elections. Hearing on Accessibility and Usability, Mar. 15, 2007.
6. Information Intermediaries for the Electorate of the 21st Century. Developing a Sound Analytical Basis for Improving Public Participation and Confidence in 21st Century Elections, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, Dec. 5, 2005.
7. Invited talk, Accessible Voting. American Disabilities Act Working Group Conference 2005, Orlando, FL, Aug. 30, 2005.
8. Testimony, EAC hearing and testimony on the Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines. Pasadena, CA, July 28, 2005.
9. Testimony, Voting Verification: U.S. Senate Rules Committee Hearing. Washington, DC, June 21, 2005. (Also, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Working Paper #31, June 2005).
10. Invited talk, Voting in 2004: A Report to the Nation on America’s Election Process. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Century Foundation, sponsored by Common Cause, Washington, DC, Dec. 7, 2004.
11. Speaker and emcee, Ballot Design Opportunities. Voting Technology Conference. Cambridge, MA, Oct. 2, 2004.
12. Speaker and emcee, Local Processes Can Be Improved for 11/02/2004. Voting Technology Conference. Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1, 2004.
13. Invited talk, E-Voting Technologies Workshop. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, Sept. 17-18, 2004.
14. Invited talk, Automated Voting and Election Observation. The Carter Center, Atlanta, GA, March 17-18, 2004.
15. Testimony, Voting Technology. Election Assistance Commission, Washington, DC, May 5, 2004.
16. Testimony,  Certification of Voting Software; Position Statement. CSTB National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Certification, Washington, DC, Apr. 19-20, 2004.
17. Invited talk, Voting Technology Project. Carnegie Board of Directors Presentation, New York, NY, Apr. 8, 2004.
18. Panelist, Electronic Voting Technology. American Association for the Advancement of Science National Meeting, Seattle, WA, Feb. 2004.
19. Invited talk, Usability and Accessibility for Voting. Building Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems Conference, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Dec. 10-11, 2003.
20. Panelist, Enhancing Voting Rights through New Voting Equipment. Claim Democracy Conference, Democracy USA, Washington, DC, Nov. 21-23, 2003.
21. Invited talk, Should Touch-Screen Voting Machines Require a Paper Trail? Claim Democracy Conference, Democracy USA, Washington, DC, Nov. 21-23, 2003
22. Invited talk, Usability and Voter Verification. USACM Workshop on Voter-Verifiable Election Systems, Denver, CO, July 29, 2003.
23. Invited talk, Risks in Election Administration and User Experience. Election Reform Summit, The Performance Institute, Arlington, VA, Apr. 30, 2003.
24. Invited talk, Ensuring Your Vote Will Count. National Conference on Election Reform, Collins Center for Public Policy, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Nov. 22, 2002.
25. Invited talk, Accuracy and User Interface. Workshop on Election Standards Technology (WEST), Washington, DC, Jan. 31, 2002.
26. Moderator, Usability Panel. Workshop on Election Standards Technology (WEST). Washington, DC, Jan. 31, 2002.
27. Invited talk, Voting Technology-What’s The Future? National Association of County Recorders, Election Officials and Clerks Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 13-17, 2001.
28. Testimony, Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project: Findings and Recommendations. Washington, DC, July 12, 2001.
29. Invited talk, Voting Access for the Disabled. National Commission on Federal Election Reform Joint Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC, June 8, 2001.
30. Invited talk, Eastern Regional Field Hearing. Democratic National Committee Voting Rights Institute, Newark, NJ, May 22, 2001.