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Studying the Nedap/Groenendaal ES3B Voting Computer: A Computer Security Perspective , Rop Gonggrijp,Willem-Jan Hengeveld 08/06/07 security, eu, The Nedap/Groenendaal ES3B voting computer is being used by 90% of the Dutch voters. With very minor modifications, the same computer...
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine , Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman Princeton University, Ed Felten 08/06/07 security, AccuVote, This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. We...
Software Review and Security Analysis of Diebold Voting Machine Software , SAITL, Florida State University 07/27/07 Diebold, source code, security, ...
Avante Vote-Trakker Voter-verified Paper Record System Assessment , New Jersey Institute of Technology 07/01/07 vvpat, security, Avante, The Attorney General’s Office issued “Criteria for Voter-Verified Paper Record for Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machines” (the Criteria), and requested New...
Sequoia AVC Advantage Voter-verified Paper Record System Assessment , New Jersey Institute of Technology 07/01/07 vvpat, security, Sequoia, The Attorney General’s Office issued “Criteria for Voter-Verified Paper Record for Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machines” (the Criteria), and requested New...
Sequoia AVC Edge Voter-verified Paper Record System Assessment , New Jersey Institute of Technology 07/01/07 vvpat, security, Sequoia, Recording Electronic Voting Machines” (the Criteria), and requested New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to test Voter-Verified Paper Record Systems (VVPRS)...
Top-To-Bottom Review Of Electronic Voting Systems Certified For Use In California Elections , 03/22/07 certification, testing, security, accessibility, usabillity, The Secretary of State intends within the next several weeks to begin a top-to-bottom review of voting systems currently certified...
Security Assessment of the Diebold Optical Scan Voting Terminal , A. Kiayias L. Michel A. Russell A. A. Shvartsman UCONN 10/30/06 security, Diebold, OpScan, AccuVote-OS, We present an independent security evaluation of the AccuVote Optical Scan voting terminal (AV-OS). We identify a number of new...
The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Security, Accessibility, Usability, and Cost Brennan Center for Justice 10/01/06 election technology, security, accessibility, usability, cost, VVPAT, voter verification, parallel testing, wireless, audits, fraud, accessibility, paper trail, On October 10, 2006, the Brennan Center for Justice released The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Security, Accessibility, Usability, and...
Voting System Security Review Dr. Michael Shamos Ph.D., J.D., 09/28/06 testing, security, Hart, Diebold, AutoMARK, This report contains the findings of a consultant engaged by the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to examine the...
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine Ed Felten, Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman Princeton University 09/13/06 security, DRE, Diebiold, AccuVote, , This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. We...
Secure Data Export and Auditing using Data Diodes Douglas Jones, 08/01/06 security, Data diodes, that is, devices which permit only one-way communication, without even a reverse channel for acknowledgment, have many potential uses within voting...
Advances in Cryptographic Voting Systems Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Ben Adida, MIT 07/01/06 cryptography, security, Democracy depends on the proper administration of popular elections. Voters should receive assurance that their intent was correctly captured and that...
How to Store Ballots on a Voting Machine Dr. David Wagner, David Molnar UC Berkeley, Tadayoshi Kohno, UC San Diego, Naveen Sastry, UC Berkeley 03/01/06 PROM, architecture , security, design, fraud prevention, We enumerate requirements and give constructions for the vote storage unit of an electronic voting machine. In this application, the record of...
Potential Threats to Statewide Voter Registration Systems Michael Alvarez, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project 10/06/05 voting system threats, security, voting attacks, The Help America Vote Act (HAVA), passed in 2002, requires that states implement "...a single, uniform, official, centralized, interactive computerized statewide voter...
Precinct Voting Denial Of Service Michael Alvarez, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project 10/05/05 voting system threats, security, voting attacks, This is a type of threat that has a long history in electoral politics, and can take many forms.1 The basic...
Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed US Government Accountability Office (GAO), 09/01/05 electronic voting, security, policy, The Help America Vote Act of 2002 established the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to help improve state and local administration...
Processes Can Improve Electronic Voting: A Case Study Of An Election Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Dr. Ted Selker 10/01/04 electronic voting, procedural security, chain of custody, reno 2004, precinct observation, Across the United States, I have personally watched hundreds of precincts vote since 2001. Most recently, I traveled to Reno/Sparks, Nevada...
Misassessment of Security in Computer-Based Election Systems Douglas Jones 09/01/04 security, cryptography, The second article, by Professor Douglas Jones of the University of Iowa, critiques what appears to be the current state-of-the-art in...
An N-Version Electronic Voting System Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Soyini D. Liburd, MIT 07/01/04 electronic voting, voting security, voting system architecture, N-version programming, ballot design, The ballot battles of the 2000 US Presidential Election clearly indicate that existing voting technologies and processes are not sufficient to...
Elections: Electronic Voting Offers Opportunities and Presents Challenges US Government Accountability Office (GAO), 06/20/04 electronic voting, security, innovation, policy, funding, The technology used to cast and count votes is one aspect of the multifaceted U.S. election process. GAO examined voting...
Security Vulnerabilities And Problems With VVPT Dr. Ted Selker, Jon Goler, MIT, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project 04/01/04 VVPAT, electronic voting, voter verification, security, fraud, A proposed Voter Verifiable Paper Trail (VVPT) includes a printed ballot as a receipt that a voter can view to...
Trusted Agent Report Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting System , RABA Technologies, 01/20/04 Diebiold, AccuVote, security, MD, VVPAT, At the request of the State of Maryland, RABA Technology's Innovative Solution Cell (RiSC) performed a review of the DIEBOLD touch-screen...
The SAVE System: Secure Architecture For Voting Electronically Existing Technology, With Built-In Redundancy, Enables Reliability Dr. Ted Selker, Jonathan Goler, MIT, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project 01/01/04 electronic voting, voting security, voting system architecture, reliability, redundancy, Existing technology is capable of yielding secure, reliable, and auditable voting systems. This system outlines an architecture based on redundancy at...
Election Reform and Electronic Voting Systems (DREs): Analysis of Security Issues Congressional Research Service, Congressional Research Service 11/04/03 security, DRE, VVPAT, cryptography, policy, In July 2003, computer scientists from Johns Hopkins and Rice Universities released a security analysis of software purportedly from a...
Ad Hoc Touch Screen Task Force Report , California Secretary of State Ad Hoc Touch Screen Task Force 07/01/03 computer security, voter verification, voter confidence, election administration, vvpat, alternative verification, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley created the Ad Hoc Touch Screen Task Force on February 19, 2003 in response to...
Security Criteria for Electronic Voting , Peter G. Neumann 09/20/93 electronic voting, security, Some basic criteria for confidentiality, integrity, availability, reliability, and assurance are considered for computer systems involved in electronic voting. An...
Accuracy, Integrity, and Security in Computerized Vote-Tallying Roy Saltman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 08/01/88 accuracy, integrity, internal control, election administration, security, vote-tallying, Recommendations are provided to promote accuracy, integrity, and security in computerized vote-tallying, and to improve confidence in the results produced....
The Case of the Diebold FTP Site Douglas Jones NA diebold, security, accuvote-ts, ...
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