Literature has shown that countries with strong democratic traditions, such as the United States and Canada, are not yet using electronic voting systems intensively, due to the concern for and emphasis on security. It has revealed that there is no such thing as an error-free computer system, let alone an electronic voting system, and that existing technology does not offer the conditions necess...

Voters in remote electronic voting systems typically cast their votes from their own devices, such as PCs and smartphones. The software executed at their devices in charge of performing the ballot presentation, navigation and most of the cryptographic operations required to protect the integrity and privacy of the ballot, is referred to as the voting client. The first voting clients were develo...

Voting is regarded as one of the most effective methods for individuals to express their opinions on a given topic. Electronic voting (e-Voting) refers to the use of computers or computerised voting equipments to cast ballots in an election. e-Voting performed over Internet can be universally accepted in the upcoming years due to the fact that Internet plays a key role in people’s lives. The Dy...

There are many protocols proposed for electronic voting, but only a few of them have prototypes implemented. Usually the prototypes are focused in the characteristics of the protocol and do not handle properly some real world issues, such as fault tolerance. This paper presents REVS, a robust electronic voting system designed for distributed and faulty environments, namely the Internet. The goa...

The Open Voting Consortium has a developed a prototype voting system 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 considerations for the system.

In an effort to promote a greater understanding of the voting systems that sit in the middle of the election technology spectrum somewhere between hand counted paper ballots and Internet voting this work presents a classification of the electronic voting technologies currently used in the U.S. A classification structure is presented and characteristics of current and future technologies are dis...

n elections throughout the U.S., electronic voting machines have failed to boot, tallied 10 times as many votes as registered voters, and drawn criticism from academics, election officials, and concerned citizens alike. High-profile exploits (such as the Hursti attack [4] and the Princeton group’s Diebold virus [2]) have brought media attention to the fragility just below the surface of electro...

We present a new remote, coercion-free electronic voting protocol which satisfies a number of properties previously considered contradictory. We introduce (and justify) the idea of revocable anonymity in electronic voting, on the grounds of it being a legal requirement in the United Kingdom, and show a method of proving the validity of a ballot to a verifier in zero knowledge, by extension of k...

The United Kingdom (UK) government has repeatedly expressed a desire to employ a Remote Electronic Voting (REV) system in a general election after 2006. Most existing REV schemes employ some form of cryptography, either to secure transmission of votes, or to model some desirable feature of public elections. This paper outlines the limitations of employing cryptographic REV schemes and proposes ...