Usability of New Electronic Voting Systems and Traditional Methods: Comparisons Between Sequential and Direct Access Electronic Voting Interfaces, Paper Ballots, Punch Cards, and Lever Machines

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...

This paper hopefully contributes to the discussion on what kind of electronic voting systems utilizing Internet technology we should be aiming at and what characteristics these systems should have. It provides an overview of the major constitutional and legal aspects of e-voting, together with their technical implications. It also discusses the security requirements and the system-wide properti...

Electronic voting systems have the potential to improve traditional voting procedures by providing added convenience and flexibility to the voter. Numerous electronic voting schemes have been proposed in the past, but most of them have failed to provide voter authentication in an efficient and transparent way. On the other hand, GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) is the most widely u...

Transparent and verifiable elections can be achieved by end-to-end verifiable electronic voting systems. The purpose of such systems is to enable voters to verify the inclusion of their vote in the final tally while keeping the votes secret. Achieving verifiability and secrecy at the same time is hard and this thesis explores the properties of verifiable electronic voting systems and describes ...

Electronic voting for local, regional and national elections and referenda is developing rapidly at a global scale as an efficient and low cost alternative to conventional methods of voting, with a positive impact on the quality of democratic representation. Still, despite the growing international experience, the harmonization of electronic voting systems with the legal and statutory framework...

Electronic voting is an emerging social application of cryptographic protocols. A vast amount of literature on electronic voting has been developed over the last two decades. In this paper, we provide a framework that classifies these approaches and defines a set of metrics under which their properties can be compared. Such a methodology reveals important differences in security properties betw...

Since the 2000 presidential elections, the evolution of electronic technologies in American elections–from voting machines to computerized voter registries–has occurred within the context of a highly partisan, polarized, and politicized environment. The decision about the type of voting systems to use within a given state has become especially political and these debates have affected the confi...

We present a secure and available electronic voting service suitable for a large-scale distributed system such as the Internet. The proposed service is based on replication and tolerates both benign and fully arbitrary failures. If enough servers are correct, service availability and security are ensured despite the presence of faulty servers and malicious voters. A voter that is affected by a ...