EPSRC grant awarded for trustworthy voting systems
Wednesday 17 September 2008
Dr James Heather and Professor Steve Schneider, in partnership with the universities of Newcastle and Birmingham have just been awarded a grant to investigate Trustworthy voting systems by the EPSRC. The project is worth £1,465,000, of which Surrey receives £550,000 to carry out the research.
Abstract:
“Governments all over the world are investing in electronic voting, but experiences in the USA and in the UK have shown that there are immense obstacles to be overcome before we can have secure and usable systems. The project aims to develop and implement robust voter-verifiable electronic voting systems that are usable in real large-scale elections. We will also conduct user trials, and we will develop and extend techniques
for analysis and verification of voting systems. To achieve these aims, we will work with the UK Ministry of Justice, which is charged with modernising UK elections, as well as two commercial election systems providers, namely Election Reform Services and Opt2Vote. We are also partnered with influential US organisations and individuals.”