Voting Village·27 min
Tod Beardsley
Tod Beardsley examines the cultural shift in election vendor vulnerability disclosure, tracing progress from adversarial hostility to coordinated CVD programs.
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Voting Village DC29
Paris and Bally's Hotels, Las Vegas · 5-8 August 2021 · 14 talks
Voting Village focuses on the cybersecurity and physical security of voting machines, election infrastructure, forensic audits, ballot barcodes, and defending against election disinformation.
1–14 of 14 talks
Voting Village·11 min
Bob Sullivan
Investigative journalist Bob Sullivan explores how historical pseudo-events and digital incentives paved the way for modern election disinformation.
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Voting Village·30 min
Kevin Skoglund
Kevin Skoglund decodes 1D and 2D barcodes on ballot-marking devices (ES&S, Dominion, Unisyn), evaluating the security risks of machine-readable votes.
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Voting Village·20 min
Thomas Hicks
U.S. Election Assistance Commission Chairman Thomas Hicks delivers keynote remarks on voter access, federal election security funding, and defending election workers.
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Voting Village·27 min
Barb Byrum
Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum shares a powerful account of defending election workers against death threats, armed protests, and toxic conspiracy theories.
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Voting Village·26 min
Brianna Lennon · Eric Fey
Missouri election directors Brianna Lennon and Eric Fey share candid insights from the frontlines of administering the historic 2020 general election.
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Voting Village·31 min
Carsten Schürmann
Carsten Schürmann analyzes how bad-faith actors weaponize Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs) and audit misunderstandings in election disinformation campaigns.
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Voting Village·24 min
Sang Oun Lee
Sang Oun Lee outlines how local election jurisdictions can update Information Security Policies (ISP) to protect critical municipal infrastructure.
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Voting Village·48 min
Harri Hursti
Harri Hursti details the forensic audit of voting tabulators in Windham, New Hampshire under SB43, explaining how mechanical ballot folds skewed scan results.
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Voting Village·27 min
BiaSciLab
BiaSciLab breaks down psychological warfare tactics on social media, analyzing how nation-state PsyOps exploit algorithmic targeting and cognitive biases.
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Voting Village·21 min
Sebastian Bay
Sebastian Bay investigates the commercial black market for social media manipulation, showing how cheap botnets undermine democratic election security.
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Voting Village·25 min
Harri Hursti
Voting Village co-founder Harri Hursti welcomes in-person and virtual attendees to DEF CON 29, framing key research themes and voting machine testing labs.
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Voting Village·29 min
Maurice Turner
Maurice Turner explores cognitive hacking in democratic elections, showing how foreign adversaries target voter trust rather than hacking voting machines.
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Voting Village·25 min
Susan Greenhalgh
Susan Greenhalgh exposes last-minute changes to the EAC Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG 2.0) that permit wireless connectivity in voting machines.
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