E nsuring public trust in election results has been a concern since antiquity. The Greeks carried out senatorial elections not by a simple showing of hands but by issuing little clay balls to the senators, who then cast their votes by dropping them into the appropriate pot. Paper ballots were first used by the Ro-mans; voting forms bearing the candidates' pre-printed names were introduced in Au...

Middleware is a class of software systems above the operating system which is becoming widely used for programming distributed systems. Voting is a fundamental operation when distributed systems involve replicated components. However, support for voting in middleware is very limited. This paper describes issues involved with supporting voting, and more general data fusion, in middleware. We des...

BACKGROUND Extraction of clinical information such as medications or problems from clinical text is an important task of clinical natural language processing (NLP). Rule-based methods are often used in clinical NLP systems because they are easy to adapt and customize. Recently, supervised machine learning methods have proven to be effective in clinical NLP as well. However, combining different ...

Recently, many e-voting systems have been proposed for successful election. It should be satisfied many requirements for successful e-voting. In this paper, we propose the ballot-cancellation scheme in order to manage invalid ballots. Many proposed e-voting systems have been proposed without considering invalid ballots. It can be happened an invalid ballot during e-voting, and then we should co...

The introduction of technology into voting systems can bring a number of benefits, such as improving accessibility, remote voting and efficient, accurate processing of votes. A voting system which uses electronic technology in any part of processing the votes, from vote capture and transfer through to vote tallying, is known as an ‘e-voting’ system. In addition to the undoubted benefits, the in...

Recent controversy regarding reforms to the voting system cast doubt on the likelihood of deploying electronic voting systems in the near future. This paper notes the deficiencies in the approach to requirements for electronic voting in general and outlines some of the recent developments in electronic voting technologies in the UK.

This paper describes the Official voting system by electronic ballot: E-Vote, which aims to streamline primary electoral processes performed in the country, beginning with the District Federal benefits and improvements. The principal benefices are economic and ecological time, taking into account process security features and the integrity of the captured votes. This system represents an altern...

Scientists have requested verifiable electronic voting schemes for many years. These schemes offer individual and universal verifiability by applying and combining complex cryptographic primitives and protocols. Electronic voting systems in use provide less or even no verifiability. Thus election authorities and voters need to trust the provider and developer of the voting system regarding the ...

We present a secure and available electronic voting service suitable for a large-scale distributed system such as the Internet. The proposed service is based on replication and tolerates both benign and fully arbitrary failures. If enough servers are correct, service availability and security are ensured despite the presence of faulty servers and malicious voters. A voter that is affected by a ...

The complexity of voting procedures, and their variations from country to country, make it challenging to design a secure electronic voting system. In most of the usual proposals, the security of the system relies mainly on a blackbox voting machine. Meanwhile, the most advanced proposals base their security arguments on (complicated) cryptographic protocols, e.g. blind signatures or homomorphi...