The foundation of a strong democracy is an informed and engaged citizenry. And what better way to both inform and engage citizens than through the power of today's information and communication technologies? Citizens around the world recognize and embrace the benefits of e-Government services such as online tax filing, license renewal, and benefits claims. Now governments are initiating strateg...

David Chaum introduced Visual Voting scheme in which a voter obtains a paper receipt from a voting machine. This receipt can be used to verify that his vote was counted in the final tally, but cannot be used for vote selling. The Chaum’s system requires sophisticated printers and application of randomized partial checking (RPC) method. We propose a complete design of a voting system that preser...

This paper provides a systematic overview of the major constitutional and legal aspects of e-voting, together with their technical implications. All democracyoriented legal and constitutional requirements of an Internet-based voting system are identified. Such a voting system has to comply with these, in order to encourage and promote the participation of citizens, without violating any of thei...

Originally, manual voting systems are surrounded with issues like results manipulation, errors and long result computation time, ineligible voters, void votes among others. Electronic system helped in overcoming the challenges system, to engendered other problems of phishing, men middle attack alongside voter’s impersonation. By these challenges, integrity an election a distributed has become a...

Remote internet voting incorporates many of the core challenges of trusted global computing. In this paper, we present the Kiezen op Afstand (KOA) system. KOA is a Free Software, remote voting system developed for the Dutch government in 2003/2004. In addition to being Open Source, it is also partially formally specified and verified. This paper summarises the work carried out to date on the KO...

Prêt à Voter is an electronic voting system with very high security properties. We aim to make the system truly usable and applicable in elections with many races and candidates by allowing the vote to be formed using a voting machine and by printing a minimalistic receipt. We also introduce the procedure/technology mix concept to describe the use of procedures, people and technology to secure ...