We propose a new encryption primitive, commitment consistent encryption (CCE), and instances of this primitive that enable building the first universally verifiable voting schemes with a perfectly private audit trail (PPAT) and practical complexity. That is: – the audit trail that is published for verifying elections guarantees everlasting privacy, and – the computational load required from the...

Mexico’s recent presidential election put the whole electoral system, from candidates to citizens and authorities, to the test. Soon after election-day, one of the losing candidates and other observers alleged that fraudulent practices of different sorts took place on July 2. Beyond and above the use of fraud claims as a political strategy, do these claims hold any water? There are no definitiv...

Methods for determining post-election audit sampling have been the subject of extensive recent research. This article • provides an overview of post-election audit sampling methods, focusing on risklimiting audits, • advances and improves three methods for calculating risk-limiting election audit samples, showing how to apply precise margin error bounds to improve the accuracy of existing metho...

Research Question The purpose of this paper is to construct knowledge on the working processes nomination committees (NCs) in sport and analyze their potential shape board composition. significance such an effort lies its shed light preceding structures practices created for wielding power organizations.Research Methods This reports findings based telephone interviews with NCs 64 Swedish nation...