Studying the Nedap/Groenendaal ES3B voting computer: a computer security perspective
EVT'07 Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Accurate Electronic Voting Technology
Security analysis of the diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine
EVT'07 Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Accurate Electronic Voting Technology
An analysis of the hart intercivic DAU eSlate
EVT'07 Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Accurate Electronic Voting Technology
Security evaluation of ES&S voting machines and election management system
EVT'08 Proceedings of the conference on Electronic voting technology
Systemic issues in the hart intercivic and premier voting systems: reflections on project EVEREST
EVT'08 Proceedings of the conference on Electronic voting technology
The New Jersey voting-machine lawsuit and the AVC advantage DRE voting machine
EVT/WOTE'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Electronic voting technology/workshop on trustworthy elections
EVT/WOTE'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Electronic voting technology/workshop on trustworthy elections
Security analysis of India's electronic voting machines
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
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Research about weaknesses in deployed electronic voting systems raises a variety of pressing ethical concerns. In addition to ethical issues common to vulnerability research, such as the potential harms and beneifts of vulnerability disclosure, electronic voting researchers face questions that flow from the unique and important role voting plays in modern democratic societies. Should researchers worry that their own work (not unlike the flaws they study) could sway an election outcome? When elected officials authorize a security review, how should researchers address the conflicted interests of these incumbent politicians, who may have powerful incentives to downplay problems, and might in principle be in a position to exploit knowledge about vulnerabilities when they stand for re-election? How should researchers address the risk that identifying specific flaws will lead to a false sense of security, after those particular problems have been resolved? This paper makes an early effort to address these and other questions with reference to experience from previous e-voting security reviews. We hope our provisional analysis will help practicing researchers anticipate and address ethical issues in future studies.