Electronic voting could increase citizens’ electoral participation and trust in countries characterized by fragile democratic institutions and public discredit of the political system such as those in Latin America. This paper examines attitudes towards e-voting among participants in a large scale pilot project conducted in Colombia in 2007, focusing on the perceived reliability and usability o...

-In this technological and knowledge age, e-commerce related matters become popular. Electronic voting is one of these matters and it is able to provide convenient, less expensive, fast and secure facilities. Important basic properties of electronic voting are fairness, privacy, eligibility, receiptfreeness, coercion-resistance and verifiability. Current electronic voting systems satisfy only s...

The design of an electronic voting system has been a hot research topic in the area of information security. Based on ID-based ring signature, blind signature, multi-verification technology and existed typical electronic voting models, an improved anonymous electronic voting system is designed. We proved that the new system has good properties of security: anonymity, eligibility, fairness, nonr...

With the rapid growth of the Internet, online voting appears to be a reasonable alternative to conventional elections and other opinion expressing processes. Current research focuses on designing and building “voting protocols” that can support the voting process, while implementing the security mechanisms required for preventing fraud and protecting voter's privacy. However, not much attention...

Voting in national elections from the comfort of one’s home computer may never be practical or secure, but we argue that remote network voting can be both practical and secure. Provisional and postal absentee ballots, which trade some amount of anonymity for the ability to determine the eligibility of a distant voter, serve as a template for how electronic remote voting might proceed. We propos...

In this paper, we assert that usability and security for poll workers are intimately linked in enabling free, fair, and secure elections. By focusing on these important but often neglected users of voting systems in designing voting systems, unintended security problems can be avoided. The overall goal of our research was to create a framework for voting system manufacturers to meet the require...

Do print media significantly impact political attitudes and party identification? To examine this question, we draw on a rare quasi-natural experiment that occurred when The Sun, a right-leaning UK tabloid, shifted its support to the Labour party in 1997 and back to the Conservative party in 2010. We compared changes in party identification and political attitudes among Sun readers with non-rea...