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The Swiss Postal Voting Process and Its System and Security Analysis

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Electronic Voting (E-Vote-ID 2019)

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The Swiss postal voting system builds on trust in governmental authorities and external suppliers. The federal structure of Switzerland of cantons and municipalities leads to a distributed architecture. Detailed information on the current postal voting procedure are manifested as implicit knowledge within fragmented institutions and are not easily accessible. This work serves (i) as an overview of the Swiss remote postal voting system, (ii) a detailed insight into the process flow, and (iii) a respective risk assessment.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Anina Sax, Annina Zimmerli, Dr. Christian Folini, Marco Sandmeier, and Dr. Benedikt van Spyk for their valuable input. This paper was supported partially by (a) the University of Zurich UZH, Switzerland and (b) the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No. 830927, the Concordia project.

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    Christian Killer & Burkhard Stiller

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  1. Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Robert Krimmer

  2. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Melanie Volkamer

  3. Equipe Cassis, Bat A, LORIA, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

    Veronique Cortier

  4. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Bernhard Beckert

  5. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Ralf Küsters

  6. Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau ZDA, Aarau, Switzerland

    Uwe Serdült

  7. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    David Duenas-Cid

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Killer, C., Stiller, B. (2019). The Swiss Postal Voting Process and Its System and Security Analysis. In: Krimmer, R., et al. Electronic Voting. E-Vote-ID 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30625-0_9

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