In the digital age, democratic systems increasingly resort to technology to support, compliment, or even transform political processes. The growing use of various electronic means in elections reflects the general tendency of increased digitalization, greater outreach, and enhanced mobility in our societies. However, the challenges are considerable. If not carefully planned and designed, e-voti...

Electronic voting machines are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to paper ballots. With this increase in use we must analyze how well these machines adhere to voting requirements, including those relating to security, privacy, and anonymity. This paper includes analysis of the security and auditing mechanisms of the open-source electronic voting system Scantegrity. We focus on Scante...

Security on electronic voting systems is fundamental; it must assure the integrity of all the elements involved or generated during a voting process. This paper presents a design of secure architectures for providing security, integrity and authenticity of the most important elements involved in an electoral process: configuration files, recorded votes and final result files. Also, different cr...

Social aspects of security of information systems are often discussed in terms of “actual security” and “perceived security”. This may lead to the hypothesis that e-voting is controversial because in paper voting, actual and perceived security coincide, whereas they do not in electronic systems. In this paper, we argue that the distinction between actual and perceived security is problematic fr...

As many European countries are about to introduce national ID cards, which are compliant to the European Citizen Card specification [CEN15480] it is natural to study how those cards may be used to implement secure electronic voting schemes. For this purpose we introduce a modified variant of the electronic voting scheme introduced in [JCJ05] which may be used with European Citizen Cards.

The use of smartcards allows for interesting properties of security protocols and services. In this paper we present an example of application of smartcards within the eld of electronic voting schemes. To be concrete, the use of smartcards has helped us to develop the rst electronic voting protocol which simultaneously satisses three properties apparently contradictory: uncoercibility, veriiabi...

The electronic Voting and Counting System (eVACS) is an open-source software used in an electronic voting trial the Australian Capital Territory, and has been recommended for use in future elections. In this paper, we report results from a review of the eVACS code and design, supported by static analysis tools. While no “hot exploits” have been found, several bad practices were identified.

Voting is one of the most important activities in a democratic society. In a traditional voting environment voting process sometimes becomes quite inconvenient due to the reluctance of certain voters to visit a polling booth to cast votes besides involving huge social and human resources. The development of computer networks and elaboration of cryptographic techniques facilitate the implementat...

In recent years, computer and network-based voting technologies have been gradually adopted for various elections. However, due to the fragile nature of electronic ballots and voting software, computer voting has posed serious security challenges. This chapter studies the security of computer voting and focuses on a cryptographic solution based on mix-nets. Like traditional voting systems, mix-...