Abstract
E-voting implantation has been facing important challenges in recent years. Several incidents, together with a lack of evaluation methodologies social and cultural customs hinder a broader application. In this work, the authors aim to contribute to a safer introduction of e-voting tools by applying a practical evaluation framework strongly based on the security requirements issued by the Council of Europe (CoE) in 2017 to nvotes, a system that has been utilized to cast over 2 million votes over the last 6 years.
The ultimate goal of the analysis is not to judge from a rigid, “infallible” but to contribute to a gradual and secure implementation of e-voting solutions in the democratic processes. The authors believe it can constitute a useful source of information for election officials, researchers and voters.
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For a better understanding, see International IDEA’s database on use of ICT in Elections: https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/icts-elections (last accessed 4 June 2020).
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The contribution of Dr. David Duenas-Cid is based upon work supported by the Estonian Research Council grant (PUT 1361 “Internet Voting as Additional Channel for Legally Binding Elections: Challenges to Voting Processes Reengineering”, 2017–2020); and by the Polish National Research Center grant (Miniatura 3 - 2019/03/X/HS6/01688 “Zaufanie do technologii w e-administracji: Powtórna analiza nieudanego wdrożenia elektronicznych maszyn do głosowania w Holandii (2006-07)”).
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Marcos del Blanco, D.Y., Duenas-Cid, D., Aláiz Moretón, H. (2020). E-Voting System Evaluation Based on the Council of Europe Recommendations: nVotes. In: Krimmer, R., et al. Electronic Voting. E-Vote-ID 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60347-2_10
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