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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...election year in the United States. Selecting a new president is perhaps the ultimate example of the importance of having a trustworthy election process. There have been some well chronicled examples of elections with extremely close results, where the winners margin of victory was perhaps smaller than the election systems margin of error....
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Out of this world election: NASA astronauts vote from space

2008-10-31 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Election officials in two Texas counties have worked with NASA to make sure that the two U.S. astronauts can vote in next Tuesday's presidential election
 
Tags: presidential election, astronauts, nasa, vote, texas counties, election officials, tuesday
 
 
 
 
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Palm Beach County's election woes continue

2008-09-08 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A close election in a Florida county triggers recounts that aren't matching up with the number of ballots that were cast
 
Tags: close election, cast, ballots
 
 
 
 
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EPIC: Use of Internet to deceive voters grows as election nears

2008-10-21 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
With two weeks to go before the presidential election, the Electronic Privacy Information Center is warning voters to keep an eye out for Internet-based efforts to deceive them about voting rules
 
Tags: presidential election, deceive, voters, efforts, eye, rules, weeks
 
 
 
 
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Mercenary Firm Offers to 'Detain Troublemakers' on Election Day

2008-11-03 15:39:00 by Nathan Hodge in Wired Security
 
CIA-linked private military contractor Evergreen Defense & Security Services offered to post sentries at Oregon election offices on Tuesday, "detaining troublemakers" and making sure voters "do not get out of control." But rest easy: the company struck out with its sales pitch
 
Tags: oregon election offices, company struck, security services, troublemakers, post sentries, sales pitch, military contractor, rest easy, defense
 
 
 
 
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Election Day: What could possibly go wrong?

2008-11-03 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
E-voting technology has come a long way since the 2000 U.S. presidential election, when voting equipment problems erased an estimated 1.5 million votes during one of the closest elections in U.S. history
 
Tags: presidential election, million votes, history, elections, technology, equipment
 
 
 
 
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Hoax e-mail postponing election sent to 35,000 at GMU

2008-11-04 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
About 35,000 students, faculty and staff at George Mason University received a hoax e-mail that appeared to be from the provost's office saying the presidential election had been postponed to Nov. 5
 
Tags: hoax e-mail, george mason university, presidential election, provost, staff, faculty, office, students, nov
 
 
 
 
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E-voting: What will it take for a smooth election?

2008-11-05 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Tuesday's U.S. election may not be long remembered for widespread problems with voting systems, but there were at least scattered reports of problems with touch-screen or optical-scan voting machines, many compounded by record turnouts in some jurisdictions
 
Tags: election, record turnouts, jurisdictions, optical-scan, widespread, machines, systems, reports, tuesday
 
 
 
 
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National Security Perspectives A Post-Election Insider View

2008-11-18 14:13:25 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...election was encouraging. Make the world more non-partisan and take on the threats that we have in front of us head-on The panel was very upfront about current threats. William Crowell said It is highly imprudent to believe that there will not be another 9-11. We have to fund and support the work to stop other attacks. We can only mitigate...
 
Tags: secure border investments, investments, government contractors, government, threats, government achieve, initial investments shouldwould, obama administration, current threats
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptops affect 337,000 Davidson County voters