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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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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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Stolen laptops affect 337,000 Davidson County voters

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2007-12-29 11:30:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Election Commission Davidson County, Tennessee has an estimated population of 607,413. The county seat is Nashville Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Registered Davidson County voters Number Affected 337,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, addresses and telephone numbers Breach Description A pair of laptop...
 
Tags: voters, davidson county voters, davidson county, tennessee voters, information technology department, information, voters monitor, sensitive personal information, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes

2008-08-28 06:38:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has finally admitted that a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped It's unclear if this error is random or systemic. If it's random -- a small percentage of all votes are dropped -- then it is highly unlikely that this affected the outcome of any election. If it's...
 
Tags: election, diebold election systems, diebold, machines, election technology, ohio, ohio secretary, election officials, votes
 
 
 
 
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Ohio official sues e-voting vendor for lost votes

2008-08-08 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner filed a lawsuit against e-voting vendor Premier Election Solutions for dropped votes in the state's March primary election. Premier Election Solutions was formerly called Diebold Election Systems
 
Tags: diebold election systems, premier election solutions, march primary election, jennifer brunner filed, ohio secretary, votes, lawsuit
 
 
 
 
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Some Comments on the EPTS Member Agreement

2008-04-07 04:31:21 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...election. This means that the current committee will have been in place for more than 5 years before a general election is held My comment is that the folks currently on the EPTS are good people, there is no doubt about this. However, Ibelieve that the event processing community would be better served if a generally election was held within 3...
 
Tags: epts, epts membership agreement, agreement, epts membership, epts community, agreement specifies, committee, current committee, comments
 
 
 
 
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New Research Results for Electronic Voting

2008-05-22 14:32:01 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...election disasters that occurred in the United States during and after 2000. Of particular note were the electronic voting (e-voting) systems that were widely deployed to replace the pre-scored punch-card systems, systems that had have been frequently judged to be central to the problem in the 2000 Florida general election. The (premature)...
 
Tags: election, election technology, punch-card systems, systems, multiple election disasters, decade ago, electronic, subject, privacy research
 
 
 
 
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Dan Wallach on Electronic Voting Machines

2008-07-02 06:15:27 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...election administrators are smart enough to grasp the vendors behavior for what it actually is and take appropriate steps to bolster our election integrity. Until then, the bottom line is that many jurisdictions in Texas and elsewhere in the country will be using e-voting equipment this November with known security vulnerabilities, and the...
 
Tags: dan wallach, attacks, excellent blog post, vendors, vendors behavior, equipment, procedures, machine companies, texass dres
 
 
 
 
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FISMA Report Cards IssuedResponse is Rote by Now

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2008-05-21 15:36:29 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...election, he was the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee is now chaired by Henry Waxman Time for a new concept in your vocabulary: LGOPP (OK, actually its LGOP , but I added an extra P for comedy purposes). Imagine June 6th, 1944, paratroopers scattered all over the French countryside. What...
 
Tags: report, fisma, fisma report card, security, measure security, enterprise-wide security, report card, security stuff, security lgopps
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on Super Tuesday

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2008-02-06 06:44:05 by HASH0x8bc5b54 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...elections into the process and that is a good thing. However, when you examine the wins, a Democratic winning their primary in Utah, Alaska and Idaho is just not very exciting. He has as no chance of winning those states in the general election. On the other hand Hillary has certainly demonstrated her ability to win in the traditional...