Voting Village·32 min
Geoff Hale · Ryan Macias
Explains how the reduced federal role in election security is changing threat sharing, and how volunteer and private groups are filling the gap.
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DEF CON 34/Voting Village across years
Voting Village DC34
Las Vegas Convention Center · 6–9 August 2026 · 24 talks
Voting Village talks from DEF CON 34. These recordings are on the DEF CON media server, not YouTube.
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Voting Village·26 min
Richard DeMillo
Argues that election security failures persist when known vulnerabilities become normalized, drawing on the Challenger and Columbia investigations and a Georgia voting lawsuit.
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Voting Village·26 min
Michael Moore · Philip Stark · Jeff Hail
Election security panelists examine how vulnerability research gets misread as proof of stolen votes, and how experts can communicate findings without eroding public trust.
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Voting Village·22 min
Michael Specter
Presents a study of usability failures in election administration, based on interviews and a survey of election officials.
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Voting Village·50 min
Wayne Williams
Traces how Colorado built statewide risk-limiting audits, from the 2009 law through the 2017 rollout, and why they verify vote tabulation.
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Voting Village·28 min
Drew Springall
Examines the Android app and configuration complexity of the Dominion ImageCast X voting machine from a software engineering and architecture perspective.
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Voting Village·40 min
Doug Jones
Argues that election observation needs designed programs, legal access, shared documentation and technical expertise, not just admitting people to watch.
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Voting Village·31 min
Matt Blaze
Frames the core problem of US election integrity, separating real technical risks from unfounded distrust and the pull toward internet voting.
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Voting Village·44 min
Philip Stark
Explains risk-limiting audits, which use random ballot sampling to confirm that reported election winners really won, and why they depend on a trustworthy paper trail.
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Voting Village·29 min
Hallvard Nygård
Shows how a lone citizen observer used public records requests and scraped election protocols to probe the paper-ballot process in Norway.
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Voting Village·46 min
Barbara Simons
Makes the case that internet voting cannot be secured or verified, using past pilot breaches, failed trials and expert reviews as evidence.
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Voting Village·34 min
Michael Moore
Presents a state election CISO's view of threats to election offices, covering a website attack, the recent primary, and physical, reputational and logistical risks.
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Voting Village·28 min
John Odum
Shows how cheap, low-skill attacks such as website defacement, malicious voting apps, and phone-based misdirection could erode voter confidence in internet voting.
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Voting Village·29 min
Carsten Schürmann
Argues that differences between voting channels, such as internet and mail-in ballots, can be weaponized to erode public trust in election results.
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Voting Village·31 min
Josh Benaloh
Explains how publicly auditable, end-to-end verifiable elections let anyone check vote tallies without trusting election software, hardware, or officials.
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Voting Village·31 min
Marilyn Marks · Max Springer
Shows how a known Dominion voting machine flaw, a predictable record-ID sequence, let an AI agent link Georgia ballots back to individual voters.
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Voting Village·16 min
Philip Stark
Walks attendees through a hands-on risk-limiting audit of a mock mayoral election, showing how random ballot sampling can confirm a reported winner.
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Voting Village·28 min
Nate Young · Ryan Macias
Two election officials sort recent election news into real risks and noise, covering foreign interference, federal retreat, voter-roll checks, mail ballots and late rule changes.
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Voting Village·49 min
Kevin Shelley
Traces how a 2003 California investigation and a failed 2004 primary pushed the state to require paper records and source code review for voting machines.
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Voting Village·37 min
Kendall Spencer
Hosts a facilitated closing discussion on election trust, transparency, and misinformation, ending with what attendees can do next.
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Voting Village·28 min
Jason Wareham · Manbir Gulati
Presents a forensic examination of a Dominion voting system used in a live Puerto Rico election, covering its control, cryptography and software failures.
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Voting Village·40 min
Brian DeMuth
Demonstrates a zero-click iOS exploit chain built from 39 patched flaws, and argues that platform compromise undermines internet voting.
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Voting Village·22 min
Matt Blae · Brian Demouth · Jake Braun · David Jefferson · Philip Stark · Kendall Spencer
Introduces the DEF CON Voting Village's origins, its founders, and the election security research planned for the 2026 program.
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Voting Village·30 min
Tori Noble
Explains how DMCA Section 1201 affects election security researchers, covering technical protection measures, the narrow statutory exemptions, and the temporary good-faith research exemption.
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