This paper defines and explores the notion of 'software independence' in voting systems: 'A voting system is software independent if an (undetected) change or error in its software cannot cause an undetectable change or error in an election outcome'. For example, optical scan and some cryptographically based voting systems are software independent. Variations and implications of this definition...

This paper deals with design, build and test a online voting system that facilitates user (the person who is eligible for voting), candidate (Candidate are the users who are going to stand in elections for their respective party), Election Commission Officer (Election Commission Officer who will verify whether registered user and candidates are authentic or not) to participate in online voting....

E-voting technology has been developed for more than 30 years. However it is still distance away from serious application. The major challenges are to provide a secure solution and to gain trust from the voters in using it. In this paper we try to present a comprehensive review to e-voting by looking at these challenges. We summarized the vast amount of security requirements named in the litera...

Activist computer scientists, including some of the authors of this paper, have been working against the adoption by governments of commercial, proprietary, insecure, poorly designed and implemented voting systems the world-over. And, while we mainly work to accomplish our goals by educating citizens and communicating with the press, we also must propose solutions to the problems of trustworthy...

The ambition of any e-voting system is to reproduce, in an electronic environment, the characteristics of physical voting systems, such as accuracy, democracy, privacy and veri ability. REVS is an Internet e-voting system based on blind signatures and designed to be robust in distributed and faulty environments. However, the execution of REVS client system, used by voters, can be tampered by in...

This paper aims to introduce the current situation of electronic voting (e-voting) in Japan and discuss its challenges. E-voting has gradually spread in Japan. It has been used a total of twenty times by ten local governments since it was first introduced in 2002. Under the current law, e-voting can be used only for the election of the head of local government or council members. The paper firs...