Electronic democracy (e-democracy) is a necessity in this era of computers and information technology. Electronic election (e-election) is one of the most important applications of e-democracy, because of the importance of the voters’ privacy and the possibility of frauds. Electronic voting (e-voting) is the most significant part of e-election, which refers to the use of computers or computeris...

In this paper, we examine the attitudes of voters regarding the voting experience in the 2009 gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia. We focus especially on the way in which voting technology experiences that voters have had affect their confidence in the voting process, their attitudes toward fraud and reform, and other aspects of the voting process. We find that voters are sensiti...

CORE is an association of university departments of computer science in Australia and New Zealand. The author, Dr Vanessa Teague, is an honorary fellow in the department of computer science and software engineering at the University of Melbourne, with a research emphasis on secure electronic voting. This report has been endorsed by the president of CORE. I was appointed by the VEC as a " Techni...

Proposals for verifiable electronic voting that provide assurances for secrecy of the ballot and integrity of the election have been in the academic literature since the early 1980s with real world systems proposed in the 2000’s — but the challenge of making verifiable voting usable and practical for ordinary voters and integration into existing paper based election processes has meant that pra...

Our paper deals with the question how remote e-voting can be put into practice in a secure and at the same time feasible way. We show that outsourcing the technical implementation of electronic elections to a Voting Service Provider (VSP) is one solution to this problem. Our concept can help election hosts to easily conduct electronic elections without having to take care of the necessary secur...

This paper presents details of a web-based, database-oriented ‘‘electronic voting service’’. Rapid world-wide growth in Internet and Web use has stimulated many initiatives aimed at applying information and communication innovations to create what has been called a ‘‘digital’’ or ‘‘electronic democracy’’. Internet voting is already widespread in a variety of forms, some serious, most not. A new...

Electronic voting poses unique design challenges, simultaneously requiring extensive security, universal access, and strict privacy. Results of British focus group research into electronic voting usability are presented. Recommendations flow, that follow the principle that electoral processes must be designed around the accurate transmission and aggregation of all voters’ uncoerced wishes.

The use of e-voting for the elections to the Austrian Federation of students (Hochschülerinnen und Hochschülerschaftswahlen) was one of the most sophisticated Austrian e-government projects in 2009. The task was to complement the paper based voting with an electronic voting channel in order to create new opportunities to vote. Together with the implementation of e-voting the legal basis of the ...