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Threats to Voting Systems
The National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted a workshop to allow the U.S.
election community to participate in developing an analysis of threats
to voting systems. The workshop took place on October 7, 2005, at the
Hilton Washington DC North in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The goal of the
workshop was to solicit and gather threat analysis material and to
gather critical analysis of the collected threats, the plausibility of
various scenarios, assumptions made, and what lessons can be learned
as a result of the analysis.
Participants in
the workshop were encouraged to submit a threat analysis. See the
"Submissions" page for details on the
submission process and example threat analyses. Submitted threat
analyses and papers are available here.
State and local
election directors and officials, voting system security researchers,
election lawyers, threat analysis experts, voting system vendors, and
others from the public and private sectors participated in the
workshop and submitted threat analyses of voting systems.
NIST continues
accept both threat analyses and comments on threat analyses. In the
near future, NIST will publish written proceedings that document the
October workshop. In the interim, mp3 files of the presentations and
panel discussions are posted here.
NIST's Involvement in Voting
The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 has given NIST a key role in
helping to realize nationwide improvements in voting systems by
January 2006. NIST research activities authorized by HAVA
include the security of computers, computer networks, and computer
data storage used in voting systems, methods to detect and prevent
fraud, and protection of voter privacy and the role of human factors
in the design and application of voting systems. Details of NIST
voting research are available at
www.vote.nist.gov.
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