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About the Voting Technology Project

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 12:41.

Established by Caltech President David Baltimore and MIT President Charles Vest in December 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. Since establishment, members of the VTP have studied all aspects of the election process, both in the United States and abroad. VTP faculty, research affiliates, and students have written many working papers, published scores of academic articles and books, and worked on a great array of specific projects.

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Election Integrity - Past, Present & Future

Submitted by gbain on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 06:29.

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This event is to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the First National Symposium on Security and Reliability of Computers in the Electoral Process, held in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986. This event was co-chaired by Eva Waskell and Kurt Hyde.

The date that this event will take place:

Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stata Center, Kirsh Auditorium, Room 32-123, 32 Vassar St., Building 32, Cambridge, MA
Sponsor: Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Date: Saturday, October 1, 2011
Admission: Free. Donations accepted.

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Voter trust in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2010

Submitted by gbain on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 12:24.

Working Paper No.:

18

Date Published:

08/01/2011

Author(s):

Leontine Loeber, University of Leiden

Abstract: In this paper the trust of Dutch voters in the election process is examined. Since the Parliamentary elections of November 2006, large changes have surrounded the Dutch election process. The widely used voting machines that were introduced in the Netherlands in 1966 were decertified in 2007, causing a return to paper ballot voting. Discussions took place both in the media and in Parliament on election technologies and the trustworthiness of the election process.

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