Chris S. Crawford, Ph.D. Student, 
Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D.
Human-Centered Computing Division
School of Computing
http://www.PrimeVotingSystem.org/TelevotingOverview.pdf

Military Overseas Voting Today
•	Blank ballot is mailed to voter
•	Voter completes ballot and mails it back
•	Some ballots are uncounted
–	Unreturned ballots
–	Unreadable post-mark
–	missed deadlines
–	voter signature irregularities 

What is Televoting?
•	Provides uniformed citizens the ability to vote while overseas
•	Similar to the concept of telemedicine 
–	Telecommunication
–	Information technology

Security Features

•	“Liveness” test 
•	Live streaming video (poll watching)
•	Paper ballot produced
•	Voters verify ballot
•	Includes voter and poll worker telephone line

Web camera for poll watchers
Remote poll workers
Televoting Process
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Televoting Process
Televoting Process
Future Work

•	Pilot studies
•	Hack it if you can contest
•	Further research and development

Questions?

Chris S. Crawford, Ph.D. Student
 Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D.
Human-Centered Computing Division
School of Computing
http://www.PrimeVotingSystem.org/TelevotingOverview.pdf