In this paper we provide an evaluation and certification approach for Voting Service Providers (VSPs) which combines the evaluation of the electronic voting system and the operational environment for the first time. The VSP is a qualified institution which combines a secure voting system and a secure operational environment to provide secure remote electronic elections as a service [La08]. This...

We evaluate critically some of the properties of theMajority Judgment voting procedure recently proposed by Balinski and Laraki (2007a, 2007b) for the election of one out of two or more candidates. The Majority Judgment Voting Procedure: A Critical Evaluation

Mu et al. have proposed an electronic voting protocol and claimed that it protects anonymity of voters, detects double voting and authenticates eligible voters. It has been shown that it does not protect voter's privacy and prevent double voting. After that, several schemes have been presented to fulfill these properties. However, many of them suffer from the same weaknesses. In this p...

In this paper we present a method for combining multiple di­ arization systems into one single system by applying a majority voting scheme. The voting scheme selects the best segmen­ tation purely on basis of the output of each system. On our development set of NIST Rich Transcription evaluation meet­ ings the voting method improves our system on all evaluation conditions. For the single distan...

Remote electronic voting systems are more and more used not so much for parliamentary elections, but nevertheless for elections on lower levels as in associations and at universities. In order to have a basis for the evaluation and certification, in Germany a Common Criteria Protection Profile [PP08] is developed, which defines basic requirements for remote electronic voting systems. This Prote...

In view of pollution prediction modeling, the study adopts homogenous (random forest, bagging, and additive regression) and heterogeneous (voting) ensemble classifiers to predict the atmospheric concentration of Sulphur dioxide. For model validation, results were compared against widely known single base classifiers such as support vector machine, multilayer perceptron, linear regression and re...

Since the late 1990s voting in the Netherlands proceeds largely via voting machines. These are dedicated computers that record and store votes. These machines are under control of local governments, who put them up in voting stations on election days. These voting machines (and all new versions of them) have undergone independent evaluation before being admitted. However the internal mechanics ...

The widespread adoption of Information and Communication Technologies in governance over the years by electronic government has influenced democratic decision making through electronic voting (e-voting).E-voting provides increased participation of populace, reduced cost, decreased cases of invalid votes and support basis of democracy. However, e-voting systems are generally prone to security ri...

Abstract. In the modern world formal voting theories are becoming established and can be used to determine if a Voting System (VS) is fair or not in order to preserve democracy. The Argumentation Framework (AF) is based on the exchange and the evaluation of interacting arguments which may represent information of various kinds. We define a bijective mapping between the two theories and investig...