E-voting: Constitutional and Legal Requirements and Their Technical Implications
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This paper provides a systematic overview of the major constitutional and legal aspects of e-voting, together with their technical implications. All democracyoriented legal and constitutional requirements of an Internet-based voting system are identified. Such a voting system has to comply with these, in order to encourage and promote the participation of citizens, without violating any of their fundamental rights (privacy, anonymity, equality, etc.).
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