Voting algorithms are extensively used to make decisions in fault tolerant systems where each redundant module gives inconsistent outputs. Popular voting algorithms include majority voting, weighted voting, and inexact majority voters. Each of these techniques suffers from scenarios where agreements do not exist for the given voter inputs. This has been successfully overcome in literature using...

In the field of electronic democracy, significant part of the research activity focuses on the ability to conduct secure and trustworthy electronic election procedures. This paper presents the extension prototype of an electronic voting system, called IBB/PMA Electronic Voting System that enables cellular phones and mobile devices to act as voting casting devices. The system takes into consider...

We present a new paper-based voting method with interesting security properties. The attempt here is to see if one can achieve the same security properties of recently proposed cryptographic voting protocols, but without using any cryptography, using only paper ballots. We partially succeed. (Initially, I thought the proposal accomplished this goal, but several readers discovered a vote-buying ...

Blockchain is offering new opportunities to develop new types of digital services. While research on the topic is still emerging, it has mostly focused on the technical and legal issues instead of taking advantage of this novel concept and creating advanced digital services. In this paper, we are going to leverage the open source Blockchain technology to propose a design for a new electronic vo...

A voting system allows voters to choose between options. And, an election is an important voting system to select a cendidate. In 1951, Arrow’s impossibility theorem in [1] showed that intuitively desirable criteria were mutually contradictory. Gibbard(1973) [2] and Satterthwaite(1975) [3] independently proved that for at least three alternatives, every Pareto optimal and non-manipulable choice...

Estonia has one of the most established e-voting systems in the world. Internet voting remote e-voting using the voter’s own equipment was piloted in 2005 [12] (with the first real elections using e-voting being conducted the same year) and has been in use ever since. So far, the Estonian internet voting system has been used for the whole country in three sets of local elections, two European P...

There are many positive aspects of electronic voting systems: security, verifiability, convenience, resource conservation, and the like. However, there is still lack of trust for electronic voting systems within the public. One of the reasons could be that the notions involved in electronic voting are challenging to understand for the general public. In this project, we tried to create public t...