Electronic Elections: Trust Through Engineering

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    Abstract

    Electronic voting technology is a two edged sword. It comes with many risks but brings also many benefits. Instead of flat out rejecting the technology as uncontrollably dangerous, we advocate in this paper a different technological angle that renders electronic elections trustworthy beyond the usual levels of doubt. We exploit the trust that voters currently have into the democratic process and model our techniques around that observation accordingly. In particular, we propose a technique of trace emitting computations to record the individual steps of an electronic voting machine for a posteriori validation on an acceptably small trusted computing base. Our technology enables us to prove that an electronic elections preserves the voter’s intent, assuming that the voting machine and the trace verifier are independent.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationFirst International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for e-Voting Systems (RE-VOTE), 2009
    PublisherIEEE
    Publication date2010
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4244-7698-5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    EventRequirements Engineering for E-voting Systems - Atlanta, United States
    Duration: 31 Aug 200931 Aug 2009
    Conference number: 1

    Conference

    ConferenceRequirements Engineering for E-voting Systems
    Number1
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityAtlanta
    Period31/08/200931/08/2009

    Keywords

    • Electronic voting technology
    • Trustworthy electronic elections
    • Posteriori validation
    • Trace emitting computations
    • Trusted computing base

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