The Rice Center for Voting researchers have been working and publishing in the field for over 20 years. Here are some of our selected works.
Voting Usability
- Voter Verification of Ballot Marking Device Ballots Is a Two-Part Question: Can They? Mostly, They Can. Do They? Mostly, They Don't
- Usability of voting systems: Baseline data for paper, punch cards, and lever machines
- Why It's as Much About Psychology (and Ballot Design) as Security
- Usability of Voter Verifiable, End-to-end Voting Systems: Baseline Data for Helios,{Prêt}{à} Voter, and Scantegrity {II}
- Straight-party voting: what do voters think?
- Summative usability assessments of STAR-Vote: a cryptographically secure e2e voting system that has been empirically proven to be easy to use
- A Comparison of Usability Between Voting Methods.
- Now Do Voters Notice Review Screen Anomalies? A Look at Voting System Usability.
- Improving voting systems' user-friendliness, reliability, & security
- A Tension: Fortifying Usability While Safeguarding Voter Independence in Military Voting Solutions
- The importance of psychological science in a voter's ability to cast a vote
Voting Security
- ElectionGuard: a Cryptographic Toolkit to Enable Verifiable Elections
- On the security of ballot marking devices
- VoteBox: A Tamper-evident, Verifiable Electronic Voting System.
- Voting system risk assessment via computational complexity analysis
- Authentication for remote voting
- Ballot Tabulation Using Deep Learning
Voting Administration
- Voting technology, election administration, and voter performance
- Guardians at the Gates: Poll Worker Retention in a Challenging Election Environment
- Why Making Voting Easier Isn’t Enough: Early Voting, Campaigns, and Voter Turnout
- The Americans on the front lines of elections
- Mitigating the Turnout Effects of Bad Weather With Early Voting: 1948–2016
- Recruiting persons to work the polls
- Engaging the unengaged voter: Vote centers and voter turnout