Democrasafe

Team Members

Samuel Allen

Hung Nguyen

Rishabh Singhvi

Joshua Wolfman

Problem Statement

Design and build a secure, easy-to-use, affordable, transparent voting system that allows voters to verify their ballots. It should be reliably auditable to prevent voter fraud without impugning on voter privacy.

Specifications

Specifications based on Election Assistance Commission’s Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0:

• Open-source hardware and software
• Protect voter privacy
• Voter-verifiable ballots without trusting computer
• Easy to audit paper record
• Tamper-resistant equipment with minimal attack vectors
• Access control mechanisms to prevent multiple votes
• Detection and monitoring of tampering/unauthorized activity
• Easy to use with minimal voter error
• Affordable

Block Diagram

Slides

MDR Report

FPR Report

Product Sketch

Poster

Sources

Help Vote America Act (EAC GOV)
EVM vulnerabilities (Scientific American)
Cost for replacing voting machines (NYU School of Law)
Election infrastructure under attack
Voters may not verify summaries
iVotronic vulnerabilities
Accuvote OS vulnerabilities