Papers

  1. David Chaum, Richard Carback, Jeremy Clark, Aleksander Essex, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald L. Rivest, Peter Y. A. Ryan, Emily Shen, Alan T. Sherman, Poorvi L. Vora, Scantegrity: End-to-End Verifiability for Optical Scan Elections, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security: Special Issue on Electronic Voting. Accepted for publication
  2. Alan T. Sherman, Richard Carback, David Chaum, Jeremy Clark, John Conway, Aleksander Essex, Paul S. Herrnson, Travis Mayberry, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald L. Rivest, Anne Sergeant, Emily Shen, Bimal Sinha, Poorvi Vora, Scantegrity Mock Election at Takoma Park, End-to-End Voting Systems Workshop, Washington D.C. October 2009.
  3. David Chaum, Stefan Popoveniuc, Poorvi Vora, eTegrity and ePunchScan, End-to-End Voting Systems Workshop, Washington D.C. October 2009.
  4. Gedare Bloom, Stefan Popoveniuc, Information Leakage in Mix Networks with Randomized Partial Checking, International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09), Orlando, Florida, July 2009.
  5. Stefan Popoveniuc, Poorvi Vora, Secure voting using infected computers, 8th Annual Security Conference, Las Vegas. Nevada, April 2009.
  6. David Chaum, Ben Hosp, Stefan Popoveniuc, Poorvi Vora, Accessible Voter-Verifiability, Cryptologia Journal, Volume 33, Issue 3 (July 2009), Pages 283-291
  7. Stefan Popoveniuc, Jeremy Clark, Rick Carback, Aleks Essex, David Chaum, Securing Optical-Scan Voting, Frontiers of Electronic Voting, book to appear, accepted for publication
  8. Stefan Popoveniuc, Ben Hosp, Explaining the PunchScan voting system, Frontiers of Electronic Voting, book to appear, accepted for publication
  9. Stefan Popoveniuc, Poorvi Vora, Secure electronic voting - a framework, Cryptologia Journal, accepted for publication
  10. Stefan Popoveniuc, Poorvi Vora, Remote ballot casting with Captchas, 3rd Benelux Workshop on Information and System Security, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 2008
  11. David Chaum, Richard Carback, Jeremy Clark, Aleksander Essex, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald L. Rivest, Peter Y. A. Ryan, Emily Shen, Alan T. Sherman, Scantegrity II: End-to-End Verifiability for Optical Scan Election Systems using Invisible Ink Confirmation Codes, In the Proceedings of the 2007 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT'07) , San Jose, California, July 2008.
  12. Stefan Popoveniuc, Poorvi Vora, A framework for secure electronic voting. IAVoSS Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (WOTE) July 2008, Leuven, Belgium
  13. David Chaum, Aleks Essex, Richard Carback, Jeremy Clark, Stefan Popoveniuc, Alan Sherman, Poorvi Vora, Scantegrity: End-to-End Voter-Verifiable Optical-Scan Voting IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 40-46, May/Jun, 2008
  14. Stefan Popoveniuc, David Lundin, A simple technique for safely using Punchscan and Prêt à Voter in mail-in elections, Vote - ID 2007, First Conference on E-Voting and Identity, October 2007, Bochum, Germany
  15. Richard T. Carback III, Jeremy Clark, Aleks Essex, Stefan Popoveniuc. On the Independent Verification of a Punchscan Election. VoComp July 2007, Portland, Oregon
  16. Aleks Essex, Jeremy Clark, Richard T. Carback III, Stefan Popoveniuc. Punchscan in practice: an E2E election case study. IAVoSS Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (WOTE) June 2007, Ottawa, Canada
  17. Richard T. Carback III, Stefan Popoveniuc, Alan T. Sherman, David Chaum. Punchscan with Independent Ballot Sheets: Simplifying Ballot Printing and Distribution with Independently Selected Ballot Halves. IAVoSS Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (WOTE) June 2007, Ottawa, Canada
  18. Stefan Popoveniuc, Jonathan Stanton. Undervote and Pattern Voting: Vulnerability and a mitigation technique. IAVoSS Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (WOTE) June 2007, Ottawa, Canada
  19. Stefan Popoveniuc, Jonathan Stanton, Poorvi Vora. Voting at Random has the same effect as not voting at all. rump session WOTE June 2007, Ottawa, Canada.
  20. Stefan Popoveniuc, Ben Hosp. An Introduction to Punchscan. IAVoSS Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (WOTE) June 2006, Cambridge, UK and VSRW 06, Washington, DC

Invited presentations

  1. How Scantegrity II works, invited lecture, Princeton University, New Jersey, December 2008
  2. Why should you learn security ? invited lecture, The George Washington University, Washington DC, October 2008
  3. Scantegrity II, Rump Session of CRYPTO'08, Santa Barbara, California.
  4. PunchScan for Remote Board Elections, IACR and e-voting: an open meeting of the Board of the IACR, CRYPTO'08, Santa Barbara, California
  5. Scantegrity II, with Emily Shen, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusets, March 2008
  6. Scantegrity II - vote confirmation for OpScan, with David Chaum and Aleks Essex, Capitoll Hill, Washington DC, March 2008.
  7. On the VVSG 2007, ITIF, Washington DC, December 2007
  8. Voting with Hoses and Water, FairVote, Washington DC, November 2007
  9. Scantegrity. Dagstuhl, Germany, July 2007
  10. Practical aspects in the PunchScan implementation, with David Chaum and Aleks Essex, Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada, March 2007
  11. PunchScan - How it Works, with Rick Carback, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusets, October 2006
  12. Punchscan and VoComp, with David Chaum, Rick Carback, Jeremy Clark, Aleks Essex, Kevin Fisher, Ben Hosp, Jeremy Robin. Rump Session of CRYPTO'06, Santa Barbara, California.

Awards

  1. Grand Prize -- Best Election System, PunchScan, VoComp 2007, Portland, Oregon. Also
    • Best election technology component
    • Best Implementation
    • Best Presentation
    • Best Critique

Press Coverage

  1. Open-Source-Lösung prüft Wählerstimmen (in German) Der Standard, November 08, 2009
  2. Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting System, by Kim Zetter Wired, November 04, 2009; Also on Slashdot ; yNet (in Hebrew); TechDirt
  3. Takoma Park Voters Use New System, All Things Considered WAMU 88.5, November 04, 2009
  4. E-voting system lets voters verify their ballots are counted, By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld, November 03, 2009
  5. New Voting Technology Makes Debut In Takoma Park, Matt Bush reports for WAMU 88.5 News, November 3, 2009
  6. Literary Detective: On The Trail Of Invisible Ink, NPR , September 5, 2009
  7. 25C3: Kryptografische Krücken für das E-Voting? (in German), by Richard Sietmann, Heise , December 29 2008
  8. Star Spangled GWU - Research, by Jaime Ciavarra, GW Magazine , Fall/Winter 2008
  9. International GW Students Test Invisible Ink Voting System in Mock Election, by Julia Parmley, BY GEORGE , December 2008
  10. Reform and discipols (in Romanian-Reforma si disciploi), by Petru Tomegea, Obiectiv de Suceava , November 26, 2008. Also in "Revista 22" December 2-8, 2008.
  11. Jurnal 19 (evening news, in Romanian), by Mihai Melinescu, TVR - Romanian National Public Televission , November 9, 2008
  12. Foreign students demonstrate new voting system, by Gabriella Schwarz, GWHatchet , November 6, 2008
  13. Geek the Vote 2012: What Election Tech Will Look like 4 Years From Now, By Erik Sofge Popular Mechanics November 4, 2008.
  14. Observator 19 (evening news, in Romanian), by Alessandra Stoicescu, Antena 1 November 4, 2008.
  15. Focus 19 (evening news, in Romanian), by Nicoleta Gavrila, Prima TV November 3, 2008.
  16. 'Voter-Verifiable' Voting System Ensures Accuracy And Privacy, Science Daily October 27, 2008.
  17. New Voter Counter System Uses Encrypted Codes, Invisible Ink, by Rosanne Skirble Voice of America TV, radio, web, October 24, 2008.
  18. A really secret ballot, The Economist, October 22, 2008.
  19. Electronic voting faces a backslash, by Heather Cobun, The Washington Times,October 22, 2008.
  20. George Washington University Helps Devise New Voting System,[text] by Matt Bush WAMU 88.5 news NPR local station, October 22, 2008.
  21. Vote verification processes lacking in swing states, by Benjamin Miraski, MEDILL Reports, Washington, October 22, 2008.
  22. "Voter-Verifiable" Voting System Ensures Accuracy and Privacy, Newswise , October 22, 2008.
  23. Class voting hacks prompt call for better audits, by Bryn Nelson, MSNBC, October 20, 2008.
  24. The U.S. should ban paperless electronic voting machines, Point/Counterpoint by David Dill and Daniel Castro, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 51, No.10, October 2008.
  25. Assuring Your Vote Counts [mp3], by Randy Atkins, WTOP radio, September 14, 2008
  26. Protecting Your Vote With Invisible Ink, by Melissa Lafsky, DISCOVER Magazine, September 2008.
  27. Click Here For President: The Future of Voting in America, By Adam Hunter, MSN News, August 2008.
  28. Flawless Vote Counts, By Matt Mahoney, Technology Review, Published by MIT, September/October 2008.
  29. Canadian voting machine enters American political machine, Rosie Lombardi InterGovWorld.com MARCH 27, 2008.
  30. Down for the Count By Laurie Rowell, ACM NetWorker Magazine, vol. 12.1, pp. 17-23, MARCH 2008.
  31. Shift Back to Paper Ballots Sparks Disagreement by Pam Fessler National Public Radio, Morning Edition, March 7, 2008
  32. A Damaging Paper Chase In Voting By Timothy J. Ryan Washington Post Saturday, September 8, 2007; Page A15
  33. Voter Oversight Richard Sietmann Heise's Computertechnik (c't) article on Scantegrity (in German), c't 19/2007, S. 84: E-Voting
  34. US/Canada Team Wins Voting Machine Competition By Kim Zetter Wired's Threat Level blog article on Punchscan and VoComp, July 19, 2007
  35. Electronic Democracy Digital Planet BBC World Service January 22, 2007
  36. Making Every E-vote Count by Steven Cherry IEEE Spectrum January 2007
  37. Graduate students create voting system with paper trail, by Nick Profeta, GWHatchet , December 7, 2006
  38. Transparent and Open Voting with Punchscan Security Catalyst audio interview with Stefan, Aleks, Jeremy and Rick, December 2006
  39. Romanian living in the US, inovating voting. Florin Ionescu - Our World Romanian National Radio (in Romanian), Nov. 8, 2006
  40. Computer scientists and mathematicians look for better ways to vote Peter Weiss Science News Online, Week of Nov. 4, 2006; Vol. 170, No. 19 , p. 298
  41. People and Pencils Bram Verneer NRC Handelsblad Punchscan article in top Dutch newspaper (in Dutch)