Securing Digital Democracy
Offered By: University of Michigan via Coursera
Course Description
Overview
In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and future potential — of electronic voting and Internet voting. We'll take a look at the past, present, and future of election technologies and explore the various spaces intersected by voting, including computer security, human factors, public policy, and more.
Syllabus
- Voting as a Security Problem
- Approaching voting problems with the security mindset
- Computers at the Polls
- Voting enters the computing age
- Security Procedures and Voting Around the World
- Methods for ensuring the security of democracy
- Human Factors and Internet Voting
- Users don't always behave as expected, even when voting
- New Technology and Policy
- Lessons learned
Taught by
J. Alex Halderman
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