Voting Village·21 min
Susan Lerner
Susan Lerner reviews the legal challenge in Common Cause NY v. Kosinski against the ES&S ExpressVote XL over barcode vote encoding and voter verifiability laws.
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Voting Village
DEF CON 33 Voting Village features research, symposium panels, and hands-on evaluations of election technology and physical voting systems. Sessions cover physical security of voting terminals, statistical Risk-Limiting Audits, ballot marking devices, legal safe harbors under the DMCA, and lessons from landmark state security reviews.
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Voting Village·29 min
Susan Greenhalgh
Evaluates the effectiveness, rigor, and reliability of post-election audits conducted across seven closely contested swing states following the 2024 election.
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Voting Village·44 min
Moore · Young · Baggett
Applies the military CARVER targeting and vulnerability analysis matrix to evaluate systemic risks and physical attack vectors across the US election system.
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Voting Village·55 min
Tori Noble
Breaks down the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Section 1201 security research exemptions that protect independent voting system audits at the Voting Village.
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Voting Village·46 min
Drew Springall · Davis · Marks
Demonstrates real-time ballot manipulation on the Dominion ImageCast X touchscreen terminal and explains why recovering from election definition tampering is daunting.
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Voting Village·44 min
Ron Rivest
Turing Award winner Ron Rivest explains software independence and evidence-based elections as foundational principles for securing democratic processes.
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Voting Village·34 min
Drew Springall
Reviews publicly documented physical security controls and tamper-evident seals on deployed voting systems, exposing critical weaknesses in hardware defenses.
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Voting Village·56 min
Debra Bowen
Former California Secretary of State Debra Bowen presents the history and enduring significance of the Top-to-Bottom Review (TTBR) and post-election audit working groups.
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Voting Village·28 min
John Odum
Explains why End-to-End Verifiability (E2E-V) fails to protect online voting systems against client-side endpoint malware and server infrastructure tampering.
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Voting Village·36 min
Michael Specter
Examines the systemic security, cryptographic, and client-side malware risks of internet voting in commercial and public election deployments.
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Voting Village·15 min
Miracle Owolabi
Advocates for expanding legal safe harbor protections for election security researchers globally, drawing on lessons from research barriers in Nigeria.
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Voting Village·29 min
Debra Bowen · Matt Blaze · Clark · Hoke · Mulligan
Core researchers and public officials reflect on California's landmark Top-to-Bottom Review (TTBR) and Ohio's EVEREST study, evaluating their legacy for election security.
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Voting Village·28 min
Marnie Mahoney
Examines regulatory and certification failures surrounding Ballot Marking Devices, focusing on barcode vote encoding and ballot image discrepancies.
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Voting Village·58 min
Philip Stark
Election auditing pioneer Philip Stark details how Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs) provide statistical verification of paper ballots while warning against auditing untrustworthy vote records.
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Voting Village·11 min
Organizers welcome attendees to the DEF CON 33 Voting Village, introducing the symposium schedule, hands-on hacking labs, and voting machine targets.
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Voting Village·58 min
Burbank · Susan Greenhalgh · Marks · Jefferson
Examines multi-state insider access schemes where voting machine software and system images were illicitly copied across Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
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Voting Village·27 min
Ian Patton
Chronicles the technical failures, security vulnerabilities, and recount challenges of Los Angeles County's $300M bespoke VSAP voting system.
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Voting Village·27 min
Tod Beardsley
Tod Beardsley examines the cultural shift in election vendor vulnerability disclosure, tracing progress from adversarial hostility to coordinated CVD programs.
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Voting Village·11 min
Bob Sullivan
Investigative journalist Bob Sullivan explores how historical pseudo-events and digital incentives paved the way for modern election disinformation.
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Voting Village·30 min
Kevin Skoglund
Kevin Skoglund decodes 1D and 2D barcodes on ballot-marking devices (ES&S, Dominion, Unisyn), evaluating the security risks of machine-readable votes.
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Voting Village·20 min
Thomas Hicks
U.S. Election Assistance Commission Chairman Thomas Hicks delivers keynote remarks on voter access, federal election security funding, and defending election workers.
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Voting Village·27 min
Barb Byrum
Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum shares a powerful account of defending election workers against death threats, armed protests, and toxic conspiracy theories.
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Voting Village·26 min
Brianna Lennon · Eric Fey
Missouri election directors Brianna Lennon and Eric Fey share candid insights from the frontlines of administering the historic 2020 general election.
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Voting Village·31 min
Carsten Schürmann
Carsten Schürmann analyzes how bad-faith actors weaponize Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs) and audit misunderstandings in election disinformation campaigns.
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