Who Cares About Democracy? | A/Prof Vanessa Teague

A/Prof Vanessa Teague

https://lca2020.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/216/

I'll begin with analysis of the Swiss e-voting system and its flawed proofs, then explain why the NSW iVote system is even worse. Next, I'll discuss the world's first pilot Risk-Limiting Audit of a preferential election, in San Francisco, and compare it to the completely non-existent auditing strategy for our Senate elections.

Australia, once a leader in genuine democratic innovation, lags woefully behind the rest of the world in applying basic standards of privacy, transparency and security to electronic electoral processes. So why is it so bad, and what can we do about it?

This talk includes joint work with Michelle Blom, Andrew Conway, Chris Culnane, Sarah Jamie Lewis, Olivier Periera, Philip Stark and Peter Stuckey.

I'll conclude with some speculative ideas about improving democratic participation between elections - suggestions welcome.

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Thu Jan 16 09:10:00 2020 at Arena