DHS: Election Auditing
DHS cyber agency invests in election auditing tool to secure 2020 elections
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) cybersecurity agency announced Thursday it would partner with election officials and private sector groups to develop an election auditing tool that can be used to help ensure the accuracy of votes in 2020.
DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is partnering with non-profit group VotingWorks on an open-source software tool known as Arlo, which is provided to state and local election officials for free.
According to CISA, Arlo conducts an audit of votes by selecting how many ballots and which ballots to audit and comparing the audited votes to the original count….
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/471577-dhs-cyber-agency-invests-in-election-auditing-tool-to-secure-2020
DHS announces election audits tool
Homeland Security's main cyber division Thursday announced a new tool to help election officials audit voting machines — the first version of which is already deployed in six states.
Why it matters: While a lot of attention gets paid to voting machine security, auditing machines during an election is equally as important: It's the only way to tell whether machines were hacked or malfunctioned.
Details: The tool, which DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency calls Arlo, simplifies performing the audits' math.
Arlo is being developed by VotingWorks, a non-partisan, non-profit voting security engineering group.
It integrates with all major vendors of voting machines.
https://www.axios.com/dhs-announces-election-audits-tool-fdb501de-8feb-4ce2-8026-21c1f1beee22.html
CISA Invests in Cutting-Edge Election Security Auditing Tool Ahead of 2020 Elections
“Heading into 2020, we’re exploring all possible ways that we can support state and local election officials while also ensuring that Americans across the country can confidently cast their votes,” said CISA Director Christopher Krebs. “At a time when we know foreign actors are attempting to interfere and cast doubt on our democratic processes, it’s incredibly important elections are secure, resilient, and transparent. For years, we have promoted the value of auditability in election security, it was a natural extension to support this open source auditing tool for use by election officials and vendors, alike.”
https://www.cisa.gov/news/2019/11/21/cisa-invests-cutting-edge-election-security-auditing-tool-ahead-2020-elections
__OIG-21-01 DHS Has Secured the Nation's Election Systems, but Work Remains to Protect the Infrastructure 10/22/2020 2020 ___
https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-10/OIG-21-01-Oct20.pdf
Elections - Critical Infrastructure
https://www.eac.gov/election-officials/elections-critical-infrastructure
DHS Cybersecurity Services for Election Infrastructure
https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/DHS_Cybersecurity_Services_Catalog_for_Election_Infrastructure.pdf
STARTING POINT: U.S. Election Systems as Critical Infrastructure
https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/starting_point_us_election_systems_as_Critical_Infrastructure.pdf