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P167 - 4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    The role of trust, participation and identity in the propensity to e- and i-vote
    (4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010) Caporusso, Letizia
    The paper analyzes the issue of citizens' propensity to deploy automated elections as a dependent of several ascribed and attitudinal factors. Data are drawn from a computer-assisted telephone survey carried out in the Autonomous Province of Trento, which through project ProVotE sponsors the largest program of touchscreen-based voting in Italy. Alongside socio-demographic variables such as sex, age, education, and occupation, we describe how socio-political attitudes such as trust, participation, and identity affect the propensity to vote by automated means. We conclude that, based on the binomial and multinomial logistic models we implemented, our data support the hypothesis of existing divides between those who are favourable to automation in elections and those who are not, the main cleavages being age and level of education. Furthermore, a greater degree of trust in the generalised other is needed in e-voting but not perceived in i-voting, while both voting procedures appeal those who are already politically mobilized but less attached to traditions.
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    Scantegrity mock election at Takoma Park
    (4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010) Sherman, Alan T.; Carback, Richard; Chaum, David; Clark, Jeremy; Essex, Aleksander; Herrnson, Paul S.; Mayberry, Travis; Popoveniuc, Stefan; Rivest, Ronald L.; Shen, Emily; Sinha, Bimal; Vora, Poorvi
    We report on our experiences and lessons learned using Scantegrity II in a mock election held April 11, 2009, in Takoma Park, Maryland (USA). Ninetyfive members of the community participated in our test of this voting system proposed for the November 2009 municipal election. Results helped improve the system for the November binding election.
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    The virtual polling station. Transferring the sociocultural effect of poll site elections to remote internet voting
    (4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010) Richter, Philipp
    Public voting in polling stations is believed to have a socioculturallyintegrative effect, conveyed through the symbolic and ritualistic character of the election process. Remote internet voting is believed to not be able to provide this effect, because it omits the corporeal appearance at the polling station. The following contribution aims at indicating how such a sociocultural effect could be transferred from the real world polling station to remote internet elections.
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    Why public registration boards are required in E-voting systems based on threshold blind signature protocols
    (4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010) Koenig, Reto E.; Dubuis, Eric; Haenni, Rolf
    In this paper, we demonstrate that e-voting protocols based on threshold blind signatures from multiple authorities allow a coalition of eligible voters to cast more than votes. This property presents a serious violation of the principles of democracy in the voting process. We analyze the applicability of this violation and provide a generic solution using a public registration board and modified threshold signature schemes.
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    Voting technology and the election experience: the 2009 gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia
    (4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010) Stewart III, Charles; Alvarez, R. Michael; Hall, Thad E.
    In this paper, we examine the attitudes of voters regarding the voting experience in the 2009 gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia. We focus especially on the way in which voting technology experiences that voters have had affect their confidence in the voting process, their attitudes toward fraud and reform, and other aspects of the voting process. We find that voters are sensitive to the voting mode they use - in person voting compared to absentee voting - as well as to whether they get to vote on the technology they prefer (paper versus electronic). Finally, the privacy that voters feel in the voting process is also important in shaping the voter's confidence.
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    A formal IT-security model for the correction and abort requirement of electronic voting
    (4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010) Grimm, Rüdiger; Hupf, Katharina; Volkamer, Melanie
    This paper addresses a basic security requirement of electronic voting, namely that a voter can correct or abort his vote at any time prior to his final vote casting. This requirement serves as a protection against voter precipitance (haste). We specify rules for a reset and cancel function that implement the correction and abort requirement. These rules are integrated in an extended version of the formal IT security model provided in [VG08]. We show that these rules do respect the requirements covered in this model namely that each voter can cast a vote, that no voter loses his voting right without having cast a vote and that only eligible voters can cast a vote. This paper formally describes and mathematically proves the model and finally shows at which places of a voting process the formal rules apply.
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    Universally verifiable efficient re-encryption mixnet
    (4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010) Puiggalí Allepuz, Jordi; Guasch Castelló, Sandra
    Implementing a transparent audit process when an election is conducted by electronic means is of paramount importance. Universally verifiable mixnets are focused on providing such a property by means of cryptographic proofs verifiable by any auditor. While some of these systems require high amount of computing resources that make them inefficient for real elections, others proposals reduce the computation cost by sacrificing audit accuracy or reducing the voter privacy protection level. In this paper, we propose an efficient mixnet verification system that combines the advantages of the RPC and Optimistic Mixing techniques, achieving a high audit accuracy level while fully preserving voters' privacy.
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    The use of E-voting in the austrian federation of students elections 2009
    (4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010) Krimmer, Robert; Ehringfeld, Andreas; Traxl, Markus
    The use of e-voting for the elections to the Austrian Federation of students (Hochschülerinnen und Hochschülerschaftswahlen) was one of the most sophisticated Austrian e-government projects in 2009. The task was to complement the paper based voting with an electronic voting channel in order to create new opportunities to vote. Together with the implementation of e-voting the legal basis of the federation of students was adapted to include an electronic election administration. The discussion around e-voting was rather controversial with clear pro and contra positions. This first of a kind implementation of e-voting in Austria was technically successful. Almost 1% (2.161) of the eligible students cast their votes electronically between 18th and 22nd of May 2009. For identification and authentication, they used the citizen card (the Austrian model of a smart card with digital signature) and a suitable smartcard-reader device, which was handed out for free. The anonymity was performed by using a cryptographic protocol in the postvoting phase, similar to a paper based postal voting procedure. The e-voting servers were placed in two data centers of the Federal Computing Centre (Bundesrechenzentrum) to allow for fail-safe operation. While the discussion around e-voting was rather controversial with clear pro and con positions, and marked a first nation-wide discussion around remote voting in general. For future uses of e-voting in Austria the penetration of identification and authentication means has to be raised as well as a more positive atmosphere amongst the stakeholders has to be reached.
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    Sigma ballots
    (4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010) Popoveniuc, Stefan; Regenscheid, Andrew
    We present Sigma ballots, a new type of ballot designed to be used in secure elections. Sigma ballots use the random order of candidates introduced by Prêt à Voter, combined with the confirmation codes of Scantegrity II. These ballots can be produced by a DRE machine with a slightly modified VVPAT, or can be similar to optical scan ballots. Sigma ballots work in conjunction with existing publicly verifiable tallying schemes to allow for end-to-end verifiability. The advantages of Sigma ballots include an easy check for correct printing, the possibility of keeping a fixed order of candidates when selections are made, automated creation of receipts, no extra marks added to the ballot after it is cast, the ability to be hand counted, and voters only needing to know a valid confirmation code to file a complaint.
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    Double-entry accounting provides software-independent algorithmfor confirming the integrity of automated election tallies
    (4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010) Verzola, Roberto S.
    This paper proposes the use of double-entry accounting to maintain the integrity of election data as they go through the processes of counting, canvassing, consolidation, and reporting. Double-entry accounting brings to election tallies its well-known benefits of minimizing errors, deterring fraud, and maintaining the integrity of large collections of numeric data. Its superiority to single-entry methods, which are currently in use in the electoral tallies of most countries, is universally acknowledged in business and is increasingly appreciated by governments. This paper describes how double-entry accounting can be applied to election tallies, proposes the equations that govern the accounting of ballots and votes, and discusses the advantages that this brings. It also responds to arguments that the method is not appropriate for election tallies.