In this paper, we propose a practical and secure electronic voting scheme suitable for large-scale distributed systems such as the Internet. As in most of the voting systems in the literature, the proposed voting scheme allows only eligible voters to vote once, protects the voters’ privacy, and ensures the accuracy of the tally. In addition, the proposed scheme satisfies further important crite...

Remote Internet voting places the control and secrecy of the immediate voting environment on the shoulder of the individual voter but it also turns voting into yet another on-line activity thus endangering the well-known social nature of voting and possibly reducing the crucial sense of civic duty that is important for a healthy democracy. There is however a complete lack of evidence to what de...

Typically each voter contributes with one vote for an election. But there are some elections where voters can have different weights associated with their vote. In this paper we provide a solution for allowing an arbitrary number of weights and weight values to be used in an electronic voting system. We chose REVS, Robust Electronic Voting System, a voting system designed to support Internet vo...

In the Netherlands as well as many other countries, the use of electronic voting solutions is a recurrent topic of discussion. While electronic voting certainly has advantages over paper voting, there are also important risks involved. This paper presents an analysis of benefits and risks of electronic voting, and shows the relevance of these issues by means of three case studies of real-world ...