This report presents certain integrity vulnerabilities in the Diebold AV-TSx Voting Terminal. We present two attacks based on these vulnerabilities: one attack swaps the votes of two candidates and another erases the name of one candidate from the slate. These attacks do not require the modification of the operating system of the voting terminal (as […]
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A Summary Comparison of the Optical Scan (OS) and the Touch Screen (TS) Voting Terminals
This summary presents an impartial discussion of the two voting technologies in wide use as of this writing (2007): Optical Scan and Touch Screen technologies. The purpose of the presentation is to better the understanding of the pros and cons offered by these two technologies. Technical reports: vc-os-ts.pdf vc-os-ts.doc
An Internet Voting System Supporting User Privacy
An Internet Voting System Supporting User Privacy Aggelos Kiayias, Michael Korman and David Walluck 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2006), IEEE Computer Society 2006, pp. 165-174. December 11-15, 2006, Miami Beach, Florida, USA www.acsac.org/ Abstract This work introduces the ADDER system , an Internetbased, free and open source electronic voting system which employs […]
State of Connecticut Security Procedures
APPENDIX F Security, Storage & Transportation of Ballots & Tabulators to and from Polls IMPORTANT REMINDER From the time the tabulators, memory card and ballots are received, they should be stored in a locked storage location not generally accessible. A log should be maintained of all persons having access to that storage location. The log […]