India is the world’s largest democracy with a population of more than 1 billion; India has an electorate of more than 668 million and covers 543 parliamentary constituencies. Voting is the bridge between the governed and government. The last few years have brought a renewed focus on to the technology used in the voting process. The current voting system has many security holes, and it is diffic...

This paper describes Scantegrity, an electronic voting system developed by Chaum et al. (2008b), and it analyses Scantegrity’s ability to satisfy the goals of privacy and verifiability. The paper describes a programmatic attack on Scantegrity and presents findings in the form of program output for a corrupted hypothetical election. The attack takes advantage of the inherent vulnerability of ele...

E nsuring public trust in election results has been a concern since antiquity. The Greeks carried out senatorial elections not by a simple showing of hands but by issuing little clay balls to the senators, who then cast their votes by dropping them into the appropriate pot. Paper ballots were first used by the Ro-mans; voting forms bearing the candidates' pre-printed names were introduced in Au...

This chapter gives a summary of cryptographic e-voting protocols. We start with a motivation and an overview of some aspects of traditional elections. We then outline the security requirements of e-voting and present in detail two approaches to cryptographic e-voting, based on homomorphic encryption and mix networks. We finish the chapter with a list of open problems.

The I-Voting system designed and implemented in Estonia is one of the first nationwide Internet voting systems. Since its creation, it has been met with praise but also with close scrutiny. Concerns regarding security breaches have focused on in-person election observations, code reviews and adversarial testing on system components. These concerns have led many to conclude that there are variou...

This paper discusses how electronic voting was implemented in practice in the Netherlands, which choices were made and how electronic voting was finally abolished. This history is presented in the context of the requirements of the election process, as well as the technical options that are available to increase the reliability and security of electronic voting.

An electronic voting protocol provides cast-as-intended verifiability if the voter can verify that her encrypted vote contains the voting options that she selected. There are some proposals of protocols with cast-as-intended verifiability in the literature, but all of them have drawbacks either in terms of usability or in terms of security. In this paper, we propose a new voting scheme with cas...

Code voting provides an appropriate technology to address the secure platform problem of remote Internet voting, but it is not particularly user-friendly. In this paper, we propose the use of CAPTCHAan acronym standing for Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart to improve the user-friendliness of code voting, discuss the security of CAPTCHAbased code voting,...

The significant improvement in the information and communication Technology (ICT) from last few decades increases various new needs. E-Governance system has also no exception. People are approaching to fulfill their dreams. In the case of M-voting the security is the major issue. Democracy Needs all and only the authorized voters can vote and each eligible voter can vote but not more than once....