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Securing Digital Democracy
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 5 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Voting as a Security Problem
Approaching voting problems with the security mindset - Week 2 - Computers at the Polls
Voting enters the computing age - Week 3 - Security Procedures and Voting Around the World
Methods for ensuring the security of democracy - Week 4 - Human Factors and Internet Voting
Users don't always behave as expected, even when voting - Week 5 - New Technology and Policy
Lessons learned
Prerequisite
Instructors
J. Alex Halderman
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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