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Citation
Devdatta Akhawe. "An Empirical Study of Vulnerability Rewards Programs". Talk or presentation, 10, October, 2013.

Abstract
This paper studies how to provide support for ballot-level post-election audits. Informed by our work supporting pilots of these audits in several California counties, we identify gaps in current technology in tools for this task: we need better ways to count voted ballots (from scanned images) without access to scans of blank, unmarked ballots; and we need improvements to existing techniques that help them scale better to large, complex elections. We show how to meet these needs and use our system to successfully process ballots from 11 California counties, in support of the pilot audit program. Our new techniques yield order-of-magnitude speedups compared to the previous system, and enable us to successfully process some elections that would not have reasonably feasible without these techniques.

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  Devdatta Akhawe. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/931.html"
  ><i>An Empirical Study of Vulnerability Rewards
  Programs</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  10,
  October, 2013.

• Plain text

  Devdatta Akhawe. "An Empirical Study of Vulnerability
  Rewards Programs". Talk or presentation,  10, October,
  2013.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Akhawe13_EmpiricalStudyOfVulnerabilityRewardsPrograms,
      author = {Devdatta Akhawe},
      title = {An Empirical Study of Vulnerability Rewards
                Programs},
      day = {10},
      month = {October},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {This paper studies how to provide support for
                ballot-level post-election audits. Informed by our
                work supporting pilots of these audits in several
                California counties, we identify gaps in current
                technology in tools for this task: we need better
                ways to count voted ballots (from scanned images)
                without access to scans of blank, unmarked
                ballots; and we need improvements to existing
                techniques that help them scale better to large,
                complex elections. We show how to meet these needs
                and use our system to successfully process ballots
                from 11 California counties, in support of the
                pilot audit program. Our new techniques yield
                order-of-magnitude speedups compared to the
                previous system, and enable us to successfully
                process some elections that would not have
                reasonably feasible without these techniques.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/931.html}
  }
  

Posted by Carolyn Winter on 18 Nov 2013.
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