scholarly journals A Manipulation Prevention Model for Blockchain-Based E-Voting Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Ruhi Taş ◽  
Ömer Özgür Tanrıöver
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
Potential Problem ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Data Manipulation ◽  
Distributed Structure ◽  
Prevention Model ◽  
Election Results

Security and trust are seen as the most important issues in electronic voting systems. Therefore, it is necessary to use cryptographic procedures to ensure anonymity, security, privacy, and reliability in these systems. In recent years, blockchain has become one of the most commonly used methods for securing data storage and transmission through decentralized applications. E-voting is one of these application areas. However, data manipulation is still seen as a major potential problem in e-voting systems. In theproposed model, administrators or miners are prevented from previewing election results which are normally accessible data due to the blockchain structure. A double-layer encryption model is proposed and tested to prevent manipulations that may occur with the election results. It is ensured that the election results can be counted after the participation of all stakeholders at the end. In this way, potential manipulations may be prevented during the election period. As a result of the model, the privacy of voters is ensured, no central authority is needed, and the recorded votes are kept in a distributed structure.

scholarly journals Electronic Australian Elections: Verifiability of Accuracy is a Design Goal, which Must be Mandated by Law and Deliberately Designed into Electronic Electoral Processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-65
Author(s):  
Vanessa Teague ◽  
Patrick Keyzer
Keyword(s):  
Source Code ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Internet Voting ◽  
Design Goal ◽  
Electoral Laws ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Legislative Reforms

Electronic voting and counting are increasingly common and have been adopted in a number of Australian jurisdictions. Unfortunately, there is evidence that e-voting systems lack transparency. At present there are reasonable solutions for poll-site e-voting but none for remote paperless Internet voting. Although there are reasonable methods for statistical audits of electronically counted election results, Australian elections do not use them. The authors argue that a purposive approach should be taken to relevant electoral laws to ensure that genuine scrutiny of electronic electoral processes can be undertaken. This would require the source code and the voting data to be made available for testing. The authors recommend a number of legislative reforms to ensure the verifiability of e-voting. These reforms need to be undertaken to ensure that Australian elections are accurate, and consistent with the constitutional requirement of direct choice by electors.    

Anomaly Detection in Electronic Voting Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-206
Author(s):  
Juan Gilbert ◽  
Jerone Dunbar ◽  
Alvitta Ottley ◽  
John Mark Smotherman
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems

scholarly journals Data Portability Among Providers o Platform as a Service

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (Special-Issue) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Darko Androcec
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Query Languages ◽  
Data Models ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Data Manipulation ◽  
Platform As A Service ◽  
Cloud Providers ◽  
Data Portability ◽  
Lock In

Abstract Platform as a service model has certain obstacles, including data lock-in. It is expensive and time-consuming to move data to the alternative providers. This paper presents data storage options in platform as a service offers and identifies the most common data portability problems between various commercial providers of platform as a service. There are differences among their storage models, data types, remote APIs for data manipulation and query languages. Representing data models of platform as a service and data mappings by means of ontology can provide a common layer to achieve data portability among different cloud providers.

scholarly journals Impact of Blockchain in the Voting System

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Keyword(s):  
Review Paper ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The People ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Electronic Voting System ◽  
Democratic Country

Voting is important for any democratic country. It can be considered as one of the major factors that make a government for the people and by the people. The most common methods of voting that currently exist are ballot-based voting, purely electronic methods, and Electronic Voting Machines, among others. Over the years, it has been a challenge to build a secure E-voting program that provides the privacy of current voting systems while offering a means of accountability and versatility. Using blockchain technology and cryptography we can make the process of elections as open and cost-effective as possible. In this review paper we discuss a new, blockchain-based electronic voting system that addresses some of the limitations in existing systems and evaluates some of the popular systems designed to create a blockchain-based e-voting system.

scholarly journals Winners and Losers of the Ballot: Electronic vs. Traditional Paper Voting Systems in Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Schneider ◽  
Kelly N. Senters
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
The Political ◽  
Regression Discontinuity Design ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Ballot Design ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gradual Transformation

AbstractScholars concur that free and fair elections are essential for proper democratic functioning, but our understanding of the political effects of democratic voting systems is incomplete. This article mitigates the gap by exploiting the gradual transformation of voting systems and ballot structures in Brazil’s 1998 executive elections to study the relationship between voting systems and viable and nonviable candidates’ vote shares, using regression discontinuity design. It finds that the introduction of electronic voting concentrated vote shares among viable candidates and thus exhibited electoral bias. We posit that this result occurred because viable candidates were better able to communicate the information that electronic voters needed to cast valid ballots than were their nonviable counterparts. The article uses survey data to demonstrate that electronic voters responded to changes in ballot design and internalized the information viable candidates made available to them.

A Synthesis of Vote Verification Methods in Electronic Voting Systems

2014 ◽  
pp. 92-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Fawzi Najm Al-Shammari ◽  
Adolfo Villafiorita
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Public Verifiability ◽  
Verification Methods ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
System Robustness ◽  
Voting Requirements ◽  
Verification Techniques

A large amount of research has been conducted to improve public verifiability of e-voting systems. One of the challenges is ensuring that different and apparently contradicting requirements are met: anonymity and representation, vote secrecy and verifiability. System robustness from attacks adds further complexity. This chapter summarizes some of the known vote verification techniques and highlights the pros and cons of each technique. Also, it reviews how different verification technologies cover different phases of the voting process and evaluates how these techniques satisfy the e-voting requirements.

Electronic Voting System

2015 ◽  
pp. 557-570
Author(s):  
Dashbalbar Gangabaatar
Keyword(s):  
Electoral System ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Mixed System ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Election Process ◽  
Election System ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Electronic Voting System ◽  
First Time

Mongolia introduced a new electronic voting system for the first time for the 2012 parliamentary election. E-voting empowers citizens by making voting simpler and providing better opportunities for certain groups of citizens to participate in the election process. The electoral reform was one of the major steps the parliament carried out in order to restore public trust lost in the violent protests against the 2008 parliamentary election results. A free, transparent, and fair electoral system was important to correct the fraud in the old election system. This chapter examines the effectiveness of the mixed system of election, the electronic voting system, and other changes to the electoral system in Mongolia.

Secure Electronic Voting with Cryptography

Cyber Crime ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 918-935
Author(s):  
Xunhua Wang ◽  
Ralph Grove ◽  
M. Hossain Heydari
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Voting Scheme ◽  
Threshold Decryption

In recent years, computer and network-based voting technologies have been gradually adopted for various elections. However, due to the fragile nature of electronic ballots and voting software, computer voting has posed serious security challenges. This chapter studies the security of computer voting and focuses on a cryptographic solution based on mix-nets. Like traditional voting systems, mix-net-based computer voting provides voter privacy and prevents vote selling/buying and vote coercion. Unlike traditional voting systems, mix-net-based computer voting has several additional advantages: 1) it offers vote verifiability, allowing individual voters to directly verify whether their votes have been counted and counted correctly; 2) it allows voters to check the behavior of potentially malicious computer voting machines and thus does not require voters to blindly trust computer voting machines. In this chapter, we give the full details of the building blocks for the mix-net-based computer voting scheme, including semantically secure encryption, threshold decryption, mix-net, and robust mix-net. Future research directions on secure electronic voting are also discussed.

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