Toward Clarifying Election Systems Standards

نویسندگان

  • Earl Barr
  • Matt Bishop
  • Dimitri DeFigueiredo
  • Mark Gondree
  • Patrick Wheeler
چکیده

The goal of the standards is to “address what a voting system should reliably do, not how system components should be configured to meet these requirement” [7, Vol I §1.1]. The standards present a certification procedure involving testing by Independent Testing Authorities (ITAs or, simply, Testing Authorities), and many jurisdictions cannot use systems that are uncertified. Virtually all vendors have this testing done. Nevertheless, there have been many instances of certified election systems being “broken” or performing unreliably. Why?

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تاریخ انتشار 2005