This paper examines the various different types of electronic voting systems, and distinguishes between electronic machine voting and electronic distance voting. The prospects of electronic voting systems are unclear; this paper observes some of the risks and the costs that are associated with electronic voting systems. This paper discusses security requirements when using information communica...

In recent years, several nations and private associations have introduced Internet voting as additional means to conduct elections. To date, a variety of voting schemes to conduct Internet-based elections have been constructed, both from the scientific community and industry. Because of its fundamental importance to democratic societies, Internet voting – as any other voting method – is bound t...

Election is a fundamental mechanism of democracy for people to elect a Government of their choice. Electronic voting is an emerging technology that guarantees privacy, security, correctness, verifiability and robustness. Recently, many researchers have proposed the improvements of efficient schemes on the electronic voting to ensure the security and privacy of voters. However, there is no schem...

In recent years, several electronic voting (e-voting) schemes for communication networks have been proposed. In 2006, Chang and Lee presented an anonymous electronic voting scheme which can be applied in real-world elections. However, this paper shows that ChangLee’s e-voting scheme suffers from susceptibility to security attacks. As a result, some essential security requirements of their e-vot...

Voter anonymity and voting correctness are important issues for electronic voting mechanisms. Compared electronic voting with traditional 1elections, an electronic voter is able to cast his/her ballot through the Internet in any place and at any time if he/she can access the network. Therefore, convenience and mobility make electronic voting become more and more popular and electronic voting ca...

Practically, e-voting should comply with the social acceptance, technology and law. Many believe that e-voting is better than manual voting, as the former has less manual involvement. It is also believed that it is more secure and transparent. However, some security attacks may be launched which result in breaking both voting and e-voting requirements. In this paper, we discuss some aspects of ...

An electronic voting (e-voting) system is a voting system in which the election data is recorded, stored and processed primarily as digital information. There are two types of e-voting: on-line, e.g. via Internet, and offline, by using a voting machine or an electronic polling booth. Security is the main challenge of e-voting. This is the reason why designing a secure e-voting system is very im...

There are many security challenges associated with the use of Internet voting solutions. While we are not advocating for the use of Internet voting in this paper, we do assert that if an Internet voting solution is going to be used, its deployment must be undertaken with continuous security auditing in place – security auditing that begins with the development of the Internet voting system by t...

In this paper, we assert that usability and security for poll workers are intimately linked in enabling free, fair, and secure elections. By focusing on these important but often neglected users of voting systems in designing voting systems, unintended security problems can be avoided. The overall goal of our research was to create a framework for voting system manufacturers to meet the require...

In this paper we design an e-voting protocol for an academic voting system which should be independent from other university applications. We briefly discuss security requirements for e-voting schemes focusing on our proposed scheme. We design a receipt-free e-voting protocol which requires neither anonymous channel nor other physical assumptions. We give a short survey on formal analysis of e-...