Implementations of Electronic Voting

Abstract

In order to define requirements for electronic voting systems it is necessary to understand electronic voting in general and in particular its possible implementations. Thus, this chapter provides an overview and classification of existing (paper-based and electronic) election forms, including multiple channel voting. The second part of this chapter presents the main differences between paper-based elections and electronic voting. The next two parts analysis in detail those forms of electronic voting relevant for further discussions in this book: Thus, the third part of this chapter proposes and discusses electronic voting machines (direct recording electronic voting machines and the Digital Election Pen). The fourth part focuses on remote electronic voting systems (including possible implementations of voter authentication, the secrecy of the vote, and the client-side voting software).