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...

In his seminal Social Choice and Individual Values, Kenneth Arrow stated that his theory applies to voting. Many voting theorists have been convinced that, on account of Arrow’s theorem, all voting methods must be seriously flawed. Arrow’s theory is strictly ordinal, the cardinal aggregation of preferences being explicitly rejected. In this paper I point out that all voting methods are cardinal...

Due to convenience and efficiency, electronic voting (e-voting) techniques gradually replace traditional paper-based voting activities in some developed countries. A secure anonymous e-voting system has to satisfy many properties, such as completeness, tally correctness, and uncoercibility, where the uncoercibility property is the most difficult one to be achieved. Since each voter can obtain a...

The use of e-voting for the elections to the Austrian Federation of students (Hochschülerinnen und Hochschülerschaftswahlen) was one of the most sophisticated Austrian e-government projects in 2009. The task was to complement the paper based voting with an electronic voting channel in order to create new opportunities to vote. Together with the implementation of e-voting the legal basis of the ...

This paper argues that the voting power approach is much more general than is portrayed by Albert (“The Voting Power Approach: Measurement without Theory”, European Union Politics, 4:3, 2003) and is therefore capable of generating important insights about voting systems, such as qualified majority voting in the EU Council. The voting power approach focuses on understanding the properties of vot...

Voting in national elections from the comfort of one’s home computer may never be practical or secure, but we argue that remote network voting can be both practical and secure. Provisional and postal absentee ballots, which trade some amount of anonymity for the ability to determine the eligibility of a distant voter, serve as a template for how electronic remote voting might proceed. We propos...

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...

In a democratic country, voting is one of the most important activity. In many democracies over the years, there has been decrease in the number of voters coming for election because of the inconvenient voting system. An electronic voting scheme allows voters to vote securely from distance through internet by interacting with a set of authorities. However there is always a chance that an advers...

In this paper we design an e-voting protocol for an academic voting system which should be independent from other university applications. We briefly discuss security requirements for e-voting schemes focusing on our proposed scheme. We design a receipt-free e-voting protocol which requires neither anonymous channel nor other physical assumptions. We give a short survey on formal analysis of e-...

In recent years, several electronic voting (e-voting) schemes for communication networks have been proposed. In 2006, Chang and Lee presented an anonymous electronic voting scheme which can be applied in real-world elections. However, this paper shows that Chang-Lee’s e-voting scheme suffers from susceptibility to security attacks and, as a result, some essential security requirements of their ...