Purpose – Electronic Voting System (EVS) is a type of voting program that deals primarily with the selection, the casting of votes with embedded security mechanism that detects errors, and the tamper-proof election of results done through the use of an electronic system. It can include optical scan, specialized voting kiosks and Internet voting approach. Most organizations have difficulties whe...

Privacy and verifiability refer to fundamental principles of democratic elections and therefore belong to the set of established security requirements which each electronic voting scheme is expected to meet. However, very different ideas and opinions about privacy and verifiability exist in the scientific community, which shows that both properties are not well understood yet. Moreover, althoug...

In this paper, we propose a practical and secure electronic voting scheme suitable for large-scale distributed systems such as the Internet. As in most of the voting systems in the literature, the proposed voting scheme allows only eligible voters to vote once, protects the voters’ privacy, and ensures the accuracy of the tally. In addition, the proposed scheme satisfies further important crite...

As discussed in the literature [PrMü01; Rub04; Phi02] e-voting faces a lot of threats. The purpose of this paper is to give a systematically ordered overview of attacks against e-voting and to show one solution to the issues. The challenge is to provide identification and anonymity at the same time and to exclude the possibility of fraudulent manipulations by the server administration, the vote...

Internet voting is an appealing concept to most voters, primarily for reasons of convenience (“why can’t I vote in my pajamas at a convenient time”), while appealing because of the attractiveness of technology. However, Internet voting is fundamentally different from other types of online transactions such as banking or shopping. In this Article, I describe different types of Internet voting, t...

Voting is an important tool for modern societies. It is fundamental for the democracy. This mechanism must be fair and accurate. However, threats intrinsic in the voting process may compromise these requisites. In conventional voting, dishonest talliers may corrupt the ballot box, for instance. Remote voting has more threats due to the uncontrolled environment. In this work, we propose secure p...

Voting is one of the most important activities in a democratic society. In a usual voting environment voting process sometimes becomes quite difficult due to the unwillingness of certain voters to visit a polling booth to cast votes besides involving huge social and human resources. The advance of computer networks and security techniques help the implementation of electronic voting. I-voting p...

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Preface A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE), 1 a multi-institution, multidisciplinary, academic research project funded by the National Science Foundation's...