Secure Electronic Voting

by Gritzalis, Dimitris

• ISBN13: 9781402073014
• ISBN10: 1402073011
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Elections, referenda and polls are very important processes and tools for the smooth operation of a modern democracy. They provide means for transferring power from citizens to their representatives. They can, also, support the citizen's trust and confidence in government and democracy. Election systems have been, until recently, the focus of attention of mainly politicians and election officials. However, the case of Florida US Presidential Election attracted international attention, by a very wide audience, on how elections are administered and what is - or may be - the role of technology in this process. As a result, the capabilities and limitations of electronic and Internet-based voting systems have been brought to the center of attention of many professionals, and are under intense scrutiny by policy makers, social scientists, computer and network engineers, and activist groups in several countries. Now the main issue is whether secure, reliable, robust, user-friendly, and less costly electronic voting systems could be developed. Such systems must meet strict security and privacy requirements, and comply with specific constitutional, legal and regulatory contexts. Secure Electronic Voting is an edited volume, which includes chapters authored by leading experts in the field of security and voting systems. The chapters identify and describe the given capabilities and the strong limitations, as well as the current trends and future perspectives of electronic voting technologies, with emphasis in security and privacy. Secure Electronic Voting includes state-of-the-art material on existing and emerging electronic and Internet voting technologies, which may eventually lead to the development of adequately secure e-voting systems. This book also includes an overview of the legal framework with respect to voting, a description of the user requirements for the development of a secure e-voting system, and a discussion on the relevant technical and social concerns. Secure Electronic Voting includes, also, three case studies on the use and evaluation of e-voting systems in three different real world environments. Secure Electronic Voting provides researchers and practitioners in computer science and engineering with an in-depth review on secure e-voting technologies. Election organizers, social scientists and legal experts can also benefit from the analysis of the socio-technical context of the e-voting systems and technologies. Secure Electronic Voting is designed to meet the needs of a wide audience in government, industry and academia and also graduate-level students in computer science and engineering.

Table of Contents

Contributing Authors	vii
Foreword	xi
Preface	xiii
Part I Setting the Scene
Evaluation of voting technologies	3	(14)
Douglas Jones
In search of the perfect voting technology: No easy answers	17	(14)
Lorrie Faith Cranor
Verification for electronic balloting systems	31	(12)
Rebecca Mercuri
Peter Neumann
Electronic voting: Constitutional and legal requirements, and their technical implications	43	(20)
Lilian Mitrou
Dimitris Gritzalis
Sokratis Katsikas
Gerald Quirchmayr
Part II Trends and perspectives
Towards secure and practical e-elections in the new era	63	(14)
Mike Burmester
Emmanouil Magkos
The theory and implementation of electronic voting systems	77	(24)
Ivan Damgard
Jens Groth
Gorm Salomonsen
Secure electronic voting: The current landscape	101	(24)
Costas Lambrinoudakis
Dimitris Gritzalis
Vassilis Tsoumas
Maria Karyda
Spyros Ikonomopoulos
Part III Capabilities and Limitations
Public confidence and auditability in voting systems	125	(14)
Roy Saltman
Robust verifiable non-interactive zero-sharing: A plug-in utility for enhanced voters' privacy	139	(14)
Aggelos Kiayias
Moti Yung
Issues, non-issues, and cryptographic tools for Internet-based voting	153	(12)
Rene Peralta
Private, secure and auditable Internet voting	165	(16)
Ed Gerck
Remote voting via the Internet? The Canton of Geneva pilot project	181	(14)
Alexander Trechsel
Fernando Mendez
Raphael Kies
e-vote and PKI's: A need, a bliss, or a curse?	195	(16)
Danilo Bruschi
Giusi Poletti
Emilia Rosti
Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms	211	(10)
David Chaum
Index	221