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Rules
More General Rules
Evaluation Criteria (for team entries, examples)
- Integrity, privacy, accessibility and transparency of the overall election process.
- User friendliness, disability accommodation and accuracy of vote capture.
- Completeness of concept and quality of technical presentation.
- Cleverness/efficacy/presentation of discovered weaknesses in competing systems.
Ground rules (for the competitions, main principles)
- All student activities should be in accordance with the standards and best practices of academic and professional research and development.
- All code is open for inspection and free for use/adaptation by any university, independent of whether for use by a team in a subsequent competition.
- No actual attacks are to be perpetrated against any implemented system.
Challenge level (adjustable by judges once applications received)
- Pre-existing student-implemented election systems, such as those developed at MIT, Berkeley, and GWU/UMBC, provide baseline examples.
- Optional extensions allowing the bar to be rai sed as needed include real-world aspects, such as provisional voting, absentee voting, ballot styles, and complex voting rules, as well as threats such as insider manipulation, improper influence, and disruption.
Motivation (key points)
- Foster meaningful and realistic research, development, and civic participatory experience for university students, as well as courses and inter-collegiate interchange.
- Stimulate innovation and involvement in information security and election systems.