Paper Info
Title
Are your votes really counted?: testing the security of real-world electronic voting systems
Abstract
Electronic voting systems play a critical role in today's democratic societies, as they are responsible for recording and counting the citizens' votes. Unfortunately, there is an alarming number of reports describing the malfunctioning of these systems, suggesting that their quality is not up to the task. Recently, there has been a focus on the security testing of voting systems to determine if they can be compromised in order to control the results of an election. We have participated in two large-scale projects, sponsored by the Secretaries of State of California and Ohio, whose respective goals were to perform the security testing of the electronic voting systems used in those two states. The testing process identified major flaws in all the systems analyzed, and resulted in substantial changes in the voting procedures of both states. In this paper, we describe the testing methodology that we used in testing two real-world electronic voting systems, the findings of our analysis, and the lessons we learned.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1390630.1390660
ISSTA
Keywords
Field
DocType
testing methodology,critical role,democratic society,alarming number,testing process,real-world electronic voting system,security testing,voting procedure,electronic voting system,large-scale project
Electronic voting,Security testing,Internet privacy,Voting,Computer science,Computer security,Disapproval voting,Cardinal voting systems,Democracy,Bullet voting
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.92
16
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Davide Balzarotti12040113.64
Greg Banks220115.26
Marco Cova3142571.19
Viktoria Felmetsger431315.93
Richard Kemmerer544925.88
William Robertson61762123.11
Fredrik Valeur772449.06
Giovanni Vigna87121507.72