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Evaluating Electronic Voting Systems Equipped with Voter-Verified Paper Records

2008-05-22 14:32:01 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...voter-verifiable audit trails that print out paper records that voters can read and verify. In this article, the authors report on their analysis and testing of one US state's criteria for direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machines equipped with voter-verified paper-record (VVPR) systems. The criteria and analysis cover various...
 
Tags: systems, electronic, paper records, discuss issues, analysis, issues, analysis cover, authors report, criteria
 
 
 
 
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Pennsylvania pulls plug on voter site after data leak

2008-03-19 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
With voting in Pennsylvania's presidential primary just a month away, the state was forced to pull the plug on a voter registration Web site Tuesday after it was found to be exposing sensitive data about voters in the state
 
Tags: plug, presidential primary, pennsylvania, sensitive data, pull, month, voters
 
 
 
 
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Pennsylvania pulls plug on voter site after data leak

2008-03-19 12:27:41 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A voter-registration site run by the state of Pennsylvania has been found to leak sensitive personal data about voters, necessitating its shutdown with just a month to go before that state's critical primary
 
Tags: site, critical primary, pennsylvania, month, shutdown, voters
 
 
 
 
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Scantegrity: End-to-End Voter-Verifiable Optical- Scan Voting

2008-05-22 14:32:01 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...voter to verify that his or her ballot was correctly recorded and counted. On the Scantegrity ballot, each candidate position is paired with a random letter. Election officials confirm receipt of the ballot by posting the letter that is adjacent to the marked position. Scantegrity is the first voting system to offer strong independent...
 
Tags: scantegrity, scantegrity ballot, ballot, random letter, paper audit records, letter, security enhancement, position, legislative proposals
 
 
 
 
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Vote but Verify

2007-09-07 19:56:11 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...voter-verified durable paper ballot as a small-minded banning of an attractive future of modern networked reliable electronic voting machines. I could not resist posting my disagreement into the comments on his blog, and perhaps I am going to convince him, as he edited out my most provocative snide political shots and left in some of my more...
 
Tags: all-electronic systems, systems, all-electronic, paper audit trail, all-electronic paperless approaches, security geek consensus, research topic, consensus, nist
 
 
 
 
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An Optical Scan E-Voting System based on N-Version Programming

2008-05-22 14:32:02 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...voter training, ease of use, security, and coercion across various systems are considered for the purpose of recognizing achievable improvements. Based on the use of N-version programming techniques, we propose improvements to Demotek, including those in security and new capabilities. This case study demonstrates how the voter's...
 
Tags: system based, based, system, n-version, authentication system, vote data transmission, electoral process, capabilities, electronic
 
 
 
 
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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
...voters Number Affected 337,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, addresses and telephone numbers Breach Description A pair of laptop computers containing sensitive personal information belonging to 337,000 registered Davidson County, Tennessee voters was stolen from the Davidson County Election Commission office during the...
 
Tags: voters, davidson county voters, davidson county, tennessee voters, information technology department, information, voters monitor, sensitive personal information, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Voter Registration App Asks for SSN w/o SSL

2008-01-06 20:00:06 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Encouraging young people to vote is a great idea, but asking for social security numbers with no encryption or security whatsoever is downright retardulous
 
Tags: security whatsoever, downright retardulous, social security, people, idea, vote, encryption
 
 
 
 
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The STRIDE per Element Chart

2007-10-29 23:06:46 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...voter lists (a type of data store) or vote tallies (another store Being able to enumerate the assets in data stores helps you motivate threats, and assess their risk and importance of fixing them. When we build a threat modeling process for the SDL, it gets used in Windows, Office, SQL, Exchange, Dynamics, and a slew of other products. We...
 
Tags: element chart, chart, stride, specific, specific threats, cve data, data, stride chart, threats
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...voters intent. In theory, such precision can be improved by using computers and technology However, it seems that every recent election season brings stories in the media about security concerns regarding voting machine (and their software) security. A recent New York Times article provides a good overview of voting machine security concerns;...