Busting the Paper Ballot: Voting Meets Adversarial Machine Learning

We show the security risk associated with using machine learning classifiers in United States election tabulators. The central classification task in election tabulation is deciding whether a mark does or does not appear on a bubble associated to an alternative in a contest on the ballot. Barrett...

CISA: Three Ps of Voting

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Scytl sVote 访问控制错误漏洞

Scytl sVote is a Spanish Scytl open source application. Provides voters to vote online. A security vulnerability exists in Scytl sVote 2.1, which can be exploited by an attacker to retrieve the administrative configuration by sending a POST request to the sdm-ws-rest pre-configured URI...

On Blockchain Voting

Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze: Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? Glad you asked. For starters: It doesnt solve any problems civil elections actually have. Its basically incompatible with "software independence",...

US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent

The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable voting system. A registered voter receives a computer readable code in the mail and confirms identity and confirms correct ballot...

Security Vulnerability in ESS ExpressVote Touchscreen Voting Computer

Of course the ESS ExpressVote voting computer will have lots of security vulnerabilities. It's a computer, and computers have lots of vulnerabilities. This particular vulnerability is particularly interesting because it's the result of a security mistake in the design process. Someone didn't thin...