Towards Remote Electronic Voting Systems

Abstract

During the last few years, a lot of research has been done to create voting protocols and election systems that facilitate voting via private computer networks, the Internet or remote mobile terminals. The interest in e-voting on one hand is founded in problems such as violence, intimidation, ballot stuffing, underage and multiple voting, complicity of security agencies, absence or late arrival of election materials etc which often characterise conventional voting systems. On the other hand, it is based upon interest and attention devoted to e-government, e-democracy, e-governance, etc.

In this paper, a critical appraisal of e-voting variants; the benefits and risks associated with the various electronic voting methods and electronic voting systems were presented and exhaustively discussed.