EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Stanley A. Klein
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | Threats: ... All threats to voting systems can be classified under one or more of these vulnerabilities. 2) A programmer embeds code into the voting system software that directly or indirectly (such as by allowing later introduction of malicious code) allows one or more of the following to be done at a later time: i) Recording a ballot different from the ballot displayed and entered by the voter, either consistently or with intentional pseudorandomness. ii) Modification of previously recorded votes or of vote totals iii) Causing a machine to become inoperable for further voting iv) Casting ballots that did not come from legitimate, authorized voters v) Observing recorded votes or vote totals prior to the time authorized. vi) Modifying audit trails vii) Identifying ballots cast by specific voters, with or without collusion of the voters involved. viii) Causing a machine to fail completely or to incorrectly record votes either generally or according to some logic. ix) Disabling features required for enforcing legal requirements of the ballot style or enabling features not permitted under legal requirements of the ballot style. x) Calculating vote totals inconsistent with legal requirements of a ballot style.