Outline for November 5, 2024

Reading: none
Assignments: Homework 3, due November 10 ( note extension); Project selection, due November 7

We interrupt this class for a lecture about the security of elections and electronic voting. Our regular lecture on vulnerabilities will resume on Friday.

1. Key questions about using computers in an election process

2. How elections are conducted
   1. Terms
   2. Yolo County elections
   3. The canvass

3. Requirements

4. Assurance

5. History

6. Problems in testing and in the field

7. Add in the Internet

8. Blockchains and elections

9. Pilot test of Internet voting

10. Analysis of policies and procedures

Matt Bishop Office: 2209 Watershed Sciences Phone: +1 (530) 752-8060 Email: mabishop@ucdavis.edu

ECS 235A, Computer and Information Security Version of November 7, 2025 at 7:25PM

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