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CHVote: Sixteen Best Practices and Lessons Learned

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Electronic Voting (E-Vote-ID 2020)

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The authors of this paper had the opportunity to closely accompany the CHVote project of the State of Geneva during more than two years and to continue the project after its abrupt stop in 2018. This paper is an experience report from this collaboration and the subsequent project continuation. It describes the lessons learned from this project and proposes some best practices relative to sixteen different topics. The goal of the paper is to share this experience with the community.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For further details about the reasons for abandoning the project, we refer to the State Council’s press statement at https://www.ge.ch/document/12832/telecharger.

  2. 2.

    See https://chvote2.gitlab.io.

  3. 3.

    See https://gitlab.com/openchvote.

  4. 4.

    We only had to admit one exception from the general model to allow write-in candidates in some cantons.

  5. 5.

    The performance section of the specification document is currently under construction. It will be included in one of the next releases.

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  1. Bern University of Applied Sciences, 2501, Biel, Switzerland

    Rolf Haenni, Eric Dubuis, Reto E. Koenig & Philipp Locher

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  1. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

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Haenni, R., Dubuis, E., Koenig, R.E., Locher, P. (2020). CHVote: Sixteen Best Practices and Lessons Learned. 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_7

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