1. I spent 8 weeks of this summer at the University of South Carolina working with Dr. Buell on analyzing the event logs of the iVotronics made by ES&S. Current voting machines leave a lot to be desired in terms of reliability and security. My research consisted of looking for patterns in the event logs and seeing what kind of information could be extracted. While this presentation contains an outline of the methodology and results of my research, it also focuses on the general voting machine problem. Some of my “talking” points for each slide are included in the Notes section of the PowerPoint. The current working abstract for the paper (which will be submitted for a conference and journal) follows:<br />The right to vote is fundamental to the workings of a modern democracy and as such elections should ensure that each citizen's vote is heard once and only once. However, most elections today use a computer system, and most election workers are volunteers with little training, and so human errors are introduced into the process which in the past has led to both votes in the record not being counted and votes being counted which were not in the vote record. Previous research in the area of voting iVotronics has focused on the shortcomings of current voting systems or developing better systems, but this research seeks to work with the current voting system in order to make future elections run smoother. This research delivers a system for evaluating event logs from elections in 2010 of the iVotronic machines used in South Carolina in order to identify anomalies and isolate potential causes. Additionally, this research raises serious issues about the quality of the iVotronic software due to issues found in the event logs.<br />