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...

The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) is an association of university departments of computer science in Australia and New Zealand. This submission has been authorised by the President of CORE. The authors are both Computer Science and Engineering researchers whose main interest is in electronic voting and security. We have previously made submissions to parliam...

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...

Replication and majority voting are well-known and widely-used methods for achieving fault-tolerance in distributed systems. An open area of investigation is coordinating the voting in a secure manner, so as to withstand malicious attacks. The Timed-Buffer Distributed Voting Algorithm (TB-DVA), a secure distributed voting protocol, is introduced for this purpose. It is contrasted with several o...

This paper aims to present an electronic voting system (E-Voting), hopefully, to be applied to the Lebanese electoral system. This E-Voting system (E-VS) was designed for electorates through computers programmed with convivial Graphical User Interfaces. The complex treatments and features are achieved at the levels of applicative layer and database. Several security measures were integrated int...

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...

In this paper a pilot e-voting system is being studied in order to gain insight into the complexity of IT security issues. The current debate about whether or not electronic voting systems need to have a verifiable paper audit trail provides the context of the paper. Contrary to public perception, there is a long history of technical "glitches" and irregularities involving voting machines. Acco...

Electronic voting may be a feasible option for several election environments, from closed-group elections to nation-wide elections. Especially with online voting, people will be able to cast their votes through a web browser, from their home or any other location where they can get Internet access. This paper reviews the generic cryptographic models that have been proposed in the academic liter...

An increasing number of elections have been performed using Online Voting including Estonia, Canada, Norway and Switzerland. In October 2005, Estonia organized countrywide remote e-voting. Every Estonian citizen got the opportunity to cast their vote via Internet from all over the world. Approximately 2% of actual voters made use of this opportunity. Different countries are also working on to d...

Remote voting, in which every voter can cast his vote from the convenience of his home, brings many new security and privacy threats not found in conventional precinct-based elections. We develop a cryptographic protocol for remote voting with several useful security properties. First, it provides end-to-end verifiability for the entire election system. Second, the level of security scales with...