Election Cybersecurity.md

• Election system security requirements
  • Integrity
  • Ballot Secrecy
  • Voter Authentication
  • Enfranchisement: all authorized voters ahve the opportunity to vote
  • Availability
• Election Hacking
  • diverse, decentralized voting technology
    • choose weakest targets in closest states
  • machines aren't connected to the internet
    • target election management computers to spread malware to the voting machines

  • 85% of us votes have a paper record

    • states don't look at paper
• End-to-End verifiable voting
• Key defense: paper ballots, post-election audits
• Evidence-ased methods to show election outcomes are correct