Hello: Electronic voting is what I do in Agora Ciudadana :-) [1]. There are different ways to do it. You can go all the way and do Internet voting, like they do in Estonia [2], or you can use electronic voting booths, which can either be like an electronic cashier but for votes, or they might just register digitally the paper votes.
Some methods involve advanced homomorphic encryption tools to securely record tally and verify the vote like in Estonia. Other methods just are an electronic voting machine, that aim to reduce human error and tallying time. One very important thing to take into account when doing electronic voting is authentication. In Estonia they have an electronic ID card, so authentication is easy. There's no such thing in USA or UK, for example. You can use electronic voting officially in an election or referendum state/nation-wide, or you can use it for other use cases. For secure Internet voting, you can take a look at Helios [3], libre software and used by a Cryptographers Association, or other proposals that mix paper ballots with cryptography like wombat [4]. If you are interested in the cryptography and are looking for some academic papers, I can tell you that there mainly two cryptographic ways to do elections securely: using homomorphic encryption or mixnets. Take a look at papers like [5] [6] [7]. And there are many more papers on the subject, of course. Finally, here's a talk by ben adida about why electronic voting is so hard [8], which tries to answer what's so hard about running an election and if technology can help. In Agora Voting we're now trying to implement the first secure liquid voting system, because it'll be used in three months by a congressman in Spain. We haven't been lucky finding funds so far though.. Kind regards, -- [1] https://agoravoting.com [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Estonia [3] https://heliosvoting.org [4] http://www.wombat-voting.com/ [5] http://cryptodrm.engr.uconn.edu/adder/acsac.pdf [6] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/papers/civitas-tr.pdf [7] http://heliosvoting.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/evtwote10-1.pdf [8] https://air.mozilla.org/wheres-my-vote/ On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Marcin de Kaminski <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Sorry to ask such a general question but I need input on the issue of > electronic voting. Is there any comprehensive collection of resources or > (preferably academic) research already out there? > > Any other input or links to prior discussions on this list would be most > helpful as well. > > Thanks! > > Marcin > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Eduardo Robles Elvira +34 668 824 393 skype: edulix2 http://www.wadobo.com it's not magic, it's wadobo! -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
