Hack-a-Vote: Demonstrating Security Issues with Electronic Voting Systems
- Authors
- Jonathan Bannet
David W. Price
Algis Rudys
Justin Singer
Dan S. Wallach
- Abstract
- A representative democracy depends on a universally trusted
voting system for the election of representatives; voters need to believe
that their votes count, and all parties need to be convinced that the winner
and loser of the election were declared legitimately. Direct recording electronic
(DRE) voting systems are increasingly being deployed to fill this role. Unfortunately,
doubts have been raised as to the trustworthiness of these systems. This article
presents a research voting system and associated class project which was used
to demonstrate several classes of bugs that might occur in such a voting system
unbeknownst to voters, with the difficulty of detecting these bugs through
auditing. The intent of this project is to justify the mistrust sometimes
placed in DRE voting systems that lack a voter-verifiable audit trail.
- Published
- Rice University, Department of Computer Science Technical
Report TR-03-427, Houston, Texas, November, 2003.
- Text
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- Related Links
- Voting
(in)security project in Comp527
Dan Wallach, CS
Department, Rice University
Last modified:
Wed 26-Nov-2003 9:17