With regard to e-voting system certification, political bodies around the world show very different approaches, ranging from high-level recommendations on the electoral system, not providing the associated details, to procedures that describe specific controls over critical components, not framing them in a ”big picture”. In this work, we compare and integrate two approaches that effectively represent the two extremes of the spectrum. In fact, the EU recommendation can be usefully adopted as a high-level guideline to keep in focus what the ultimate goal of a certification path should be. The U.S.A. field-tested procedures instead provide the necessary concreteness to the operative side of the certification path. The final result of this attempt at taking the best of both worlds is a step towards an applied methodology that turns a conceptually well-conceived, but not directly applicable document into a real testing and certification manual, by exploiting the experience and guidance provided by more pragmatic, but less organized, sources.

M. Prandini, M. Ramilli (2011). Taking the Best of Both Worlds: A Comparison and Integration of the U.S. and EU Approaches to E-Voting Systems Evaluation. LOS ALAMITOS, CA : IEEE Computer Society [10.1109/HICSS.2011.395].

Taking the Best of Both Worlds: A Comparison and Integration of the U.S. and EU Approaches to E-Voting Systems Evaluation

PRANDINI, MARCO;RAMILLI, MARCO
2011

Abstract

With regard to e-voting system certification, political bodies around the world show very different approaches, ranging from high-level recommendations on the electoral system, not providing the associated details, to procedures that describe specific controls over critical components, not framing them in a ”big picture”. In this work, we compare and integrate two approaches that effectively represent the two extremes of the spectrum. In fact, the EU recommendation can be usefully adopted as a high-level guideline to keep in focus what the ultimate goal of a certification path should be. The U.S.A. field-tested procedures instead provide the necessary concreteness to the operative side of the certification path. The final result of this attempt at taking the best of both worlds is a step towards an applied methodology that turns a conceptually well-conceived, but not directly applicable document into a real testing and certification manual, by exploiting the experience and guidance provided by more pragmatic, but less organized, sources.
2011
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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M. Prandini, M. Ramilli (2011). Taking the Best of Both Worlds: A Comparison and Integration of the U.S. and EU Approaches to E-Voting Systems Evaluation. LOS ALAMITOS, CA : IEEE Computer Society [10.1109/HICSS.2011.395].
M. Prandini; M. Ramilli
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