Compliance of RIES to the proposed e-voting protection profile

The RIES-KOA e-voting system was used in the Netherlands as an additional system for the elections by expatriates for the Tweede Kamer (roughly: the Dutch House of Commons) elections in 2006. Although the system has been used in other elections in the Netherlands as well, there have been few independent evaluations of the system. In this paper, we apply the recently proposed Protection Profile for e-voting systems to the RIES-KOA system. This serves a two-fold purpose: it is an independent analysis of RIES-KOA and it is the first application of the Protection Profile. We indicate several issues with RIES-KOA and the Protection Profile, respectively, as learned during the analysis