The rapid advancement in database, web and wireless technologies have given rise to new applications that were impossible just few years ago. One of these applications is e-Voting. The term “e-Voting” is defined as the process of casting votes in an election using electronic means. This paper details the requirements, design and implementation of a generic and secure electronic voting system wh...

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...

Electronic voting (e-voting) systems can greatly enhance the efficiency, and potentially, the transparency of national elections. However, the security of such systems is an area of on-going research. The literature for secure e-voting is predominantly concerned with 1-out-of-m voting strategies, where m is the number of candidates running for the elections. This paper presents a case study of ...

Electronic voting schemes can be divided into homomorphism encryption and anonymous channel based schemes. The former type requires massive communications and computation, thereby, inappropriate for large-scale voting. However, the soundness of the latter type heavily relies on the cooperation of the voters. Under these schemes, voting is disrupted if some voter abstains in the intermediate sta...

The literature abounds with discussions on the relative security merits of various voting systems, and on whether a move towards electronic voting is, from a security perspective, something to be encouraged or discouraged. Little has been said, however, on whether there would be unintended side-effects of changing the voting technology, in terms of the votes cast. Security issues aside, should ...

Verifiable electronic voting has been extensively researched for over twenty years, but few protocols have achieved real-life deployment. A key impediment, we argue, is caused by the existing protocols' universal reliance on the probity of the tallying authorities. This might seem surprising to many people as dependence on tallying authorities has been a de facto standard in the field. However,...

A hybrid voting system allows voters to revoke their electronic vote at the polling station. This approach is meant to provide full individual and universal verifiability without introducing the threats of vote buying or voter coercion. Such an integration of traditional and electronic voting systems requires the voters’ ability to prove whether they have already voted electronically, and if so...

This chapter1 describes a research experience of designing, implementing and trialling a new e-voting system called Direct Recording Electronic with Integrity (DRE-i). DRE-i is an example of a new category of voting systems that are end-to-end (E2E) verifiable without involving any tallying authorities. Such voting systems are termed “self-enforcing e-voting”.

Electronic voting has found wider acceptance both in developed and developing countries in the recent past. The current research focuses mainly in the area of privacy and security aspects of e-voting. In spite of the good security and privacy features, the existing e-voting protocols remain useful only to small elections or just to support the conventional voting, mainly because of their high c...

The Open Voting Consortium has a developed a prototype voting system with a modular voting architecture that includes an open source, PC-based voting machine that prints an accessible, voter-verified paper ballot along with an electronic audit trail. This system was designed for reliability, security, privacy, accessibility and auditability. This paper describes some of the privacy consideratio...