The 2014 Indian general election marked a single party – the Bharatiya Janata Party, winning a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, the first time since the 1984 election. The Congress, the other main national party, suffered its worst ever defeat. This election was termed by some as a 'critical election' signalling the advent of a new phase of a ‘BJP dominated’ party system in India. In this paper,...

One way to build secure electronic voting systems is to use Mix-Nets, which break any correlation between voters and their votes. One of the characteristics of Mix-Net-based eVoting is that ballots are usually decrypted individually and, as a consequence, invalid votes can be detected during the tallying of the election. In particular, this means that the ballot does not need to contain a proof...

The 2014 Indian general election marked a single party – the Bharatiya Janata Party, winning a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, the first time since the 1984 election. The Congress, the other main national party, suffered its worst ever defeat. This election was termed by some as a 'critical election' signalling the advent of a new phase of a ‘BJP dominated’ party system in India. In this paper,...

We consider the problem of secure leader election and propose two cheat-proof election algorithms : Secure Extrema Finding Algorithm (SEFA) and Secure Preference-based Leader Election Algorithm (SPLEA). Both algorithms assume a synchronous distributed system in which the various rounds of election proceed in a lock-step fashion. SEFA assumes that all elector-nodes share a single common evaluati...

In this paper, we present an election prediction system (Crystal) based on web users’ opinions posted on an election prediction website. Given a prediction message, Crystal first identifies which party the message predicts to win and then aggregates prediction analysis results of a large amount of opinions to project the election results. We collect past election prediction messages from the We...

The 2014 Indian general election marked a single party – the Bharatiya Janata Party, winning a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, the first time since the 1984 election. The Congress, the other main national party, suffered its worst ever defeat. This election was termed by some as a 'critical election' signalling the advent of a new phase of a ‘BJP dominated’ party system in India. In this paper,...

The 2014 Indian general election marked a single party – the Bharatiya Janata Party, winning a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, the first time since the 1984 election. The Congress, the other main national party, suffered its worst ever defeat. This election was termed by some as a 'critical election' signalling the advent of a new phase of a ‘BJP dominated’ party system in India. In this paper,...

Web-based on-line voting and on-line election systems provide benefits of usability, manageability and security. A particular workflow in any phase of on-line election process can be modeled and implemented securely by employing basic security applications readily provided by well established cryptographic technologies. By analyzing data-flow between different phases in the workflow, secure pro...

E-voting systems have emerged as a powerful technology for improving democracy by reducing election cost, increasing voter participation, and even allowing voters to directly verify the entire election procedure. Prior internet voting systems have single points of failure which may result in the compromise of voter secrecy, service availability, or integrity of the election results. In this pap...