The decentralization of lists has traditionally made it difficult to make a full accounting of the performance of the election system that would allow local election offices to gauge how well they are doing. Complete reporting of voter registrations, turnout at the precinct and election office level would improve the ability of election offices to diagnose where problems arise and for offices t...

In addition to the historic events surrounding the Florida vote, the outcome of the 2000 US Presidential Election has sparked a widespread discussion of the current electoral system. This discussion is not likely to fade away with a final resolution of the election outcome. The first part of this note points to some problems surrounding the voting logistics. Problems of this type are in the cen...

In an electronic voting protocol, a distributed scheme can be used for forbidding the malicious acts of the voting administrator and the counter during the election, but it cannot prevent them from collaborating to trace the ballots and destroy their privacy after the election. We present a distributed anonymous quantum key distribution scheme and further construct a distributed quantum electio...

Violations of the criminal provisions in election law give birth to crimes. For occurrence crimes, state is obliged carry out enforcement efforts. Law against crimes carried by legal apparatus authorized law, namely integrated center (gakumdu). The consists supervisory body (Bawaslu), police, and prosecutor’s office. Election very important, especially terms handling, investigation, prosecution...

— Electing leader is a vital issue not only in distributed computing but also in communication network [1, A leader is required to make synchronization between different processes. And different election algorithms are used to elect a coordinator among the available processes in the system such a way that there will be only one coordinator at any time. Bully election algorithm is one of the cla...

The Single Transferable Vote (STV) is a voting system used in some parts of Britain and Australia today. We model the voting system by randomly generating N candidates over [0,1], and assigning areas closest to them. As N increases, the probability that the STV election and the plurality election will produce the same result decreases. In single-winner elections candidates at .5 have the highes...

In the world’s largest-ever deployment of online voting, the iVote Internet voting system was trusted for the return of 280,000 ballots in the 2015 state election in New South Wales, Australia. During the election, we performed an independent security analysis of parts of the live iVote system and uncovered severe vulnerabilities that could be leveraged to manipulate votes, violate ballot priva...

Control of elections refers to attempts by an agent to, via such actions as addition/deletion/partition of candidates or voters, ensure that a given candidate wins [BTT92]. An election system in which such an agent’s computational task is NP-hard is said to be resistant to the given type of control. The only election systems known to be resistant to all the standard control types are highly art...