Long-term Retention in E-Voting - Legal Requirements and Technical Implementation
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Legally binding elections require retention of specified election data such as balloting material. This applies to paper-based as well as electronic elections. However, in Germany legal requirements on retention in e-voting have not been issued so far. Based on the German legal framework for governmental as well as non-governmental paper-based elections, we give recommendations on long-term retention in e-voting, applying our results to a state-of-the-art e-voting scheme. We also review technical measures to meet the security requirements of long-term retention in e-voting.
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