The primary goal of every voting system is to ensure that electorate vote counts therefore, electronic democratic governance that provides a transparent and trusted election is needed. The traditional method of voting involves the use of physical paper ballot to casts vote. This is susceptible to time wasting procedures, ballot snatching, lacks voter privacy and question the integrity of fair e...

In this paper we present a fully functional RSA/DSA-based e-voting protocol for online elections that corrects and improves a scheme previously proposed by LinHwang-Chang [I. Lin, M. Hwang, C. Chang, Security enhancement for anonymous secure e-voting over a network, Comput. Stand. Interfaces 25 (2) (2003) 131–139.]. We found that Lin-Hwang-Chang's scheme and a recent modification of it by Hwang...

Remote Internet voting places the control and secrecy of the immediate voting environment on the shoulder of the individual voter but it also turns voting into yet another on-line activity thus endangering the well-known social nature of voting and possibly reducing the crucial sense of civic duty that is important for a healthy democracy. There is however a complete lack of evidence to what de...

We compare voluntary and compulsory voting in a Condorcet-type model in which voters have identical preferences but differential information. With voluntary voting, all equilibria involve sincere voting and positive participation. Thus, in contrast to situations with compulsory voting, there is no conflict between strategic and sincere behavior. When voting is costless, voluntary voting is welf...

The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) is an association of university departments of computer science in Australia and New Zealand. This submission has been authorised by the President of CORE. The authors are both Computer Science and Engineering researchers whose main interest is in electronic voting and security. We have previously made submissions to parliam...

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated exploitation. We consider a committee that meets twice to decide about projects where the first-period project may have a long-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open majority voting scheme takes place. Voting splits the committee into three groups: voting winners, vot...