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The existing system for determining election results in Australia is, for the most part, secure, accurate and understandable by the average voter. This thesis explores the design of electronic voting systems designed to achieve these same…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Mark Eldridge

Paper ballot voting with its fully-reviewable paper-trail is usually considered as more secure than their e-voting counterparts, given the large number of recent incidents. In this work, we explore the security of paper voting and show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 David M. Sommer , Moritz Schneider , Jannik Gut , Srdjan Capkun

Numerous institutions, such as companies, universities, or non-governmental organizations, employ Internet voting for remote elections. Since the main purpose of an election is to determine the voters' will, it is fundamentally important to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Johannes Müller , Tomasz Truderung

Electronic voting systems have significant advantages in comparison with physical voting systems. One of the main challenges in e-voting systems is to secure the voting process: namely, to certify that the computed results are consistent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tamir Tassa , Lihi Dery , Arthur Zamarin

Postal voting is growing rapidly in the U.S., with 43% of voters casting ballots by mail in 2020, yet until recently there has been little research about extending the protections of end-to-end verifiable (E2E-V) election schemes to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Braden L. Crimmins , Marshall Rhea , J. Alex Halderman

Within a modern democratic nation, elections play a significant role in the nation's functioning. However, with the existing infrastructure for conducting elections using Electronic Voting Systems (EVMs), many loopholes exist, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Arnab Mukherjee , Souvik Majumdar , Anup Kumar Kolya , Saborni Nandi

The shift towards increased remote work and digital communication, driven by recent global developments, has led to the widespread adoption of i-voting systems, including in academic institutions. This paper critically evaluates the use of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tomas Martinek , Michal Maly

Technology has positive impacts on many aspects of our social life. Designing a 24hour globally connected architecture enables ease of access to a variety of resources and services. Furthermore, technology like Internet has been a fertile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Freya Sheer Hardwick , Apostolos Gioulis , Raja Naeem Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis

Literature has shown that countries such as Brazil and India have successfully implemented electronic voting systems and other countries are at various piloting stages to address many challenges associated with manual paper based system…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Mourine Achieng , Ephias Ruhode

Electronic voting is a very useful but challenging internet-based protocol that despite many theoretical approaches and various implementations with different degrees of success, remains a contentious topic due to issues in reliability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Federico Centrone , Eleni Diamanti , Iordanis Kerenidis

A trusted electronic election system requires that all the involved information must go public, that is, it focuses not only on transparency but also privacy issues. In other words, each ballot should be counted anonymously, correctly, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Wei-Jr Lai Ja-Ling Wu

The global pandemic situation has severely affected all countries. As a result, almost all countries had to adjust to online technologies to continue their processes. In addition, Sri Lanka is yearly spending ten billion on elections. We…

Homomorphic encryption and blockchain technology are regarded as two significant technologies for improving e-voting systems. In this paper, we suggest a novel e-voting system using homomorphic encryption and blockchain technology that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hyunyeon Kim , Kyung Eun Kim , Soohan Park , Jongsoo Sohn

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. In this paper, we proposed an Ethereum based eletronic voting (e-voting) protocol, Ques-Chain,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Qixuan Zhang , Bowen Xu , Haotian Jing , Zeyu Zheng

Voting is a cornerstone of democracy, allowing citizens to express their will and make collective decisions. With advancing technology, online voting is gaining popularity as it enables voting from anywhere with Internet access, eliminating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ivan Homoliak , Tomáš Švondr

An election is a process through which citizens in liberal democracies select their governing bodies, usually through voting. For elections to be truly honest, people must be able to vote freely without being subject to coercion; that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Tomer Ashur , Orr Dunkelman , Nimrod Talmon

Estonia has a global reputation of a digital state or e-country. However, despite the success in digital governance, the country has faced challenges in the realm of Open Government Data (OGD) area, with significant advancements in its OGD…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Katrin Rajamäe-Soosaar , Anastasija Nikiforova

In this paper we explore a method to create anonymous services on top of the STORK framework, to be used for electronic surveys or elections. The STORK project aims to realize a single electronic identification and authentication area…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Alessandro Preziosi , Diana Berbecaru

Traditional elections satisfy neither citizens nor political authorities in recent years. They are not fully secure since it is easy to attack votes. It threatens also privacy and transparency of voters. Additionally, it takes too much time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Rumeysa Bulut , Alperen Kantarcı , Safa Keskin , Şerif Bahtiyar

This pamphlet describes end-to-end election verifiability (E2E-V) for a nontechnical audience: election officials, public policymakers, and anyone else interested in secure, transparent, evidence-based electronic elections. This work is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Josh Benaloh , Ronald Rivest , Peter Y. A. Ryan , Philip Stark , Vanessa Teague , Poorvi Vora