Enhanced secure interface for a portable e-voting terminal

This paper presents an enhanced interface for an e-voting client application that partially runs inside a small, portable terminal with reduced interaction capabilities. The interface was enhanced by cooperating with the hosting computer where the terminal is connected to: the hosting computer shows a detailed image of the filled ballot. The displayed image does not convey any personal information, namely the voter's choices, to the hosting computer; voter's choices are solely presented at the terminal. Furthermore, the image contains visual authentication elements that can be validated by the voter using information presented at the terminal. This way, hosting computers are not able to gather voters' choices or to deceive voters, by presenting tampered ballots, without being noticed

Multi-community command and control systems in law enforcement: An introductory planning guide

A set of planning guidelines for multi-community command and control systems in law enforcement is presented. Essential characteristics and applications of these systems are outlined. Requirements analysis, system concept design, implementation planning, and performance and cost modeling are described and demonstrated with numerous examples. Program management techniques and joint powers agreements for multicommunity programs are discussed in detail. A description of a typical multi-community computer-aided dispatch system is appended

Improving Access to Voting: A Report on the Technology for Accessible Voting Systems

Twenty percent of U.S. adults with disabilities--more than 8 million eligible voters--say they have been unable to vote in presidential or congressional elections due to barriers at or getting to the polls. Improving Access to Voting is a new report by technology expert Noel Runyan, published by Demos and Voter Action, that finds that state voting systems are widely noncompliant with federal ADA and HAVA access requirements for voters with disabilities

FACILITATING DISTRIBUTED WORK WITH MARKETING AGENT MONITORING SYSTEM (MAMS)

Many companies today are averaging productivity gains 15 per cent to 20 per cent by assigning managers and workers distributed work arrangement according to some exploratory research. Thus, in order to decentralizing the work of marketing and sales representatives, companies are throwing a lot of field representatives or marketer to supermarket, offices, and other public places where they might sell their product or services. Few systems have been developed in order to support marketer work Nevertheless, some of the system had shortcomings. The marketer can not access the system from the client site. Hence, he or she should spend a few hours in the evening to report their work. The marketer also found the system to be inflexible. The input given is menu driven so that important information might not be recorded. The system is also prone to input error because marketer needs to re-enter the information. Moreover, the system can not assist the manager in monitoring and supervising their employee performance when they are not based in the office. The objective of the study is to ' develop a monitoring system that will save marketer time. Besides that the monitoring system should be accessible and have minimum error. In addition, it should cost efficient in terms of economic perspective. Marketing Agent Monitoring System (MAMS) is developed to assist the manager supervising the marketing agent. Short Message Technology (SMS) Gateway technology is utilized in this system. In MAMS, marketing agents' mobile phone and department's computer will be connected by the system which consists of a mobile phone and a personal computer. The information to and from marketing agents will be handled by MAMS

Electronic voting: Methods and protocols

The act of casting a ballot during an election cycle has been plagued by a number of problems, both intrinsic and extraneous. The old-fashioned paper ballot solves a number of problems, but creates its own. The clear 21st Century solution is the use of an automated electronic system for collection and tallying of votes, but the attitude of the general populace towards these systems has been overwhelmingly negative, supported in some cases by fraud and abuse. The purpose of this thesis is to do a broad survey of systems available on the market now (both in industry and academia) and then compare and contrast these systems to an “ideal” system, which we attempt to define. To do this we survey academic and commercial literature from many sources and selected the most popular, current, or interesting of the designs—then compare the relative strengths and weaknesses of these designs. What we discovered is that devices presented by industry are not only closed-box (which makes them inherently untrustworthy), but also largely inept in security and/or redundancy. Conversely, systems presented by academia are relatively strong in security and redundancy, but lack in ease-of-use or miss helpful features found on industry devices. To combat these perceived weaknesses, we present a prototype of one system which has not previously been implemented, described in Wang [1]. This system brings together many ideas from academia to solve a significant number of the issues plaguing electronic voting machines. We present this solution in its entirety as open-source software for review by the cryptographic and computer science community. In addition to an electronic voting implementation this solution includes a graphical user interface, a re-encryption mix network, and several decryption methods including threshold decryption. All of these items are described in-depth by this thesis. However, as we discuss in the conclusion, this solution falls short in some areas as well. We earmark these problem areas for future research and discuss alternate paths forward

Communications Equipment for Public Safety Communicators

Radio equipmentcomputer aided dispatchemergency communication911Communications Equipment for Public Safety Communicators surveys a variety of technologies (telephone, radio, and computer-aided dispatch systems) used in the communications industry in radio communications with an eye to emerging technologies. It is intended to provide call takers and dispatchers a means to keep abreast of technology, and support their application of creative solutions to problems in order to do their jobs effectively. This Canadian textbook is part of the Public Safety Communications program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.Wade, N. & Macpherson, A. (2016) Communications Equipment for Public Safety Communicators. Surrey, B.C.: Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityPeer reviewe

Designing and generating prototype for E-Governance based election strategy using biometric authentication and smart card device

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