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Implementation of Quorum-Based Decisions in an Election Committee

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Electronic Government (EGOV 2004)

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The paper proposes a method to implement the role of an election committee in electronic voting. Decisions in the committee need not be made unanimously, rather arbitrarily defined quora are supported.

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  1. Institute of Information Processing and Information Economics, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna Augasse 2-6, A-1090, Vienna

    Alexander Prosser, Robert Kofler, Robert Krimmer & Martin Karl Unger

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  1. Institute of Informatics in Business and Government, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Traunmüller

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Prosser, A., Kofler, R., Krimmer, R., Unger, M.K. (2004). Implementation of Quorum-Based Decisions in an Election Committee. In: Traunmüller, R. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3183. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_21

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