Technical Audit of an Electronic Polling Station

Autor: Luis Panizo Alonso, Ramón Ángel Fernández Díaz, Javier Alfonso Cendón, Héctor Alaiz Moretón
Rok vydání: 2013
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2654-6.ch011
Popis: This paper shows the lack of standard procedures to audit e-voting systems and also describes a practical process of auditing an e-voting experience based on a Direct-recording Electronic system (D.R.E). This system has been tested in a real situation, in the city council of Coahuila, Mexico, in November 2008. During the auditing, several things were kept in mind, in particular those critical in complex contexts, as democratic election processes are. The auditing process is divided into three main complementary stages: analysis of voting protocol, analysis of polling station hardware elements, and analysis of the software involved. Each stage contains several items which have to be analyzed at low level with the aim to detect and resolve possible security problems.
Databáze: OpenAIRE