In this paper, we propose and have implemented the rst veri able classroom voting system. The subject of secure classroom voting has so far received almost no attention from the security community. Though several commercial classroom voting systems have been available, none of them is veri able. State-of-the-art veri able voting protocols all rely on nding a set of trustworthy tallying authorit...

Schulze voting is a recently introduced voting system enjoying unusual popularity and a high degree of real-world use, with users including the Wikimedia foundation, several branches of the Pirate Party, and MTV. It is a Condorcet voting system that determines the winners of an election using information about paths in a graph representation of the election. We resolve the complexity of many el...

Schulze voting is a recently introduced voting system enjoying unusual popularity and a high degree of real-world use, with users including the Wikimedia foundation, several branches of the Pirate Party, and MTV. It is a Condorcet voting system that determines the winners of an election using information about paths in a graph representation of the election. We resolve the complexity of many el...

Electronic voting provides accuracy and efficiency to the electoral processes. World democracies would benefit from a secure e-voting system not only to improve voter participation and trust but also to prevent electoral fraud. However, current e-voting systems are complex and have security weaknesses. In this paper, we describe a secure e-voting system for national and local elections. This sy...

This paper aims to present an electronic voting system (E-Voting), hopefully, to be applied to the Lebanese electoral system. This E-Voting system (E-VS) was designed for electorates through computers programmed with convivial Graphical User Interfaces. The complex treatments and features are achieved at the levels of applicative layer and database. Several security measures were integrated int...

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...

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...

Electronic voting could increase citizens’ electoral participation and trust in countries characterized by fragile democratic institutions and public discredit of the political system such as those in Latin America. This paper examines attitudes towards e-voting among participants in a large scale pilot project conducted in Colombia in 2007, focusing on the perceived reliability and usability o...

Critics of voting by mail express concern over its impact on civil society. For example, Thompson (2004) posits that voting by mail limits electoral civic engagement by preventing the temporal norm of simultaneity on Election Day. I, however, find that the open ballot system of voting by mail promotes deliberation, which encourages civic engagement. This study tests if voting by mail increases ...

Current majority voting mechanism usually used in intrusion tolerant system have some limits. To solve this problem, a novel adaptive probability voting mechanism based on double threshold values is proposed. The intrusion tolerance system based on this voting mechanism can provide correct and reliable services continually in case of existing fault or intrusion and detect the faulty server repl...