Secure, Holistic Infrastructure for Election Logistics and Data (SHIELD)
So What?
As adversaries have worked to disrupt voting systems and spread distrust in the legitimacy of elections, it is crucial to increase the security of voting systems and establish practices to restore trust in the validity of elections.
Project Summary
The project will develop tools and processes that harden the decentralized electoral systems in the U.S. The research team will design a formal process offering ways for election officials to develop strategies to boost security and public trust.
Purpose/Objectives
This project aims to better secure and increase trust in election systems by offering auditing tools. The project will model the components of a secure election system for election officials, accounting for security, privacy, and financial concerns.
Method
The project is organized around the principles and practices of creating a secure election. The researchers will first develop tools and techniques that support verifiable security in elections by drawing upon established techniques for tabulating votes and auditing them, as well as new technologies developed to make the process of auditing and tabulation more efficient. Then, they will create models to build a verifiably secure system, using cryptography, to establish how these techniques can be used in the future.
Outputs and Impact
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Reports on the optimizing the standard for auditing election reporting, analyzing elections and their components, and specifying procedures for desired security
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Omaha forum on election security
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Benjamin Fuller, Ph.D.
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Ghada Almashaqbeh, Ph.D.
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Laurent Michel, Ph.D.
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Alexander Russell, Ph.D.
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