IT systems which gather and count votes for a poll, preferably in a way which ensures the ballot is both secret and manipulation-resistant.
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Electronic voting, follow up
As a follow up to this great question and the answers provided I (as stubborn and naive as I am) still don't get why creating a secure voting system is practically impossible.
First off why is anonymity so important? I don't see any democracy like…
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Algorithm for quadratic voting in anonymous decentralized systems
The question is about voting in decentralized systems. Quadratic voting is a wonderful way to reach consensus without arranging property qualifications. However, quadratic voting requires a KYC: otherwise, the attacker will simply distribute his…
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Identifying a Cheater in Public Voting Campaign
A local brewery recently ran a photo contest where the grand prize winner is determined by a public vote using a third party platform/administration. One of the entrants reached out to us because they suspected that someone was using a platform or…
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Online Political Voting System
What are the security flaws of this voting system ?
Let's say one month before the elections an offline machine auto-generates sealed envelopes for each voter which contain 3 unique GUID codes. The envelops are sent by mail to voters.
If a voter…
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How does change.org prevent fraud?
On the site change.org it's possible to start a petition.
I found two (somewhat) contradicting statements in their privacy policy:
We do not monitor, verify, or perform any background check on campaign starters, petition signers, or other users of…
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Can there be a secret ballot software in a membership-based community?
There is an online membership community. Every member has the ssh key that they use to perform various functions.
There is the need to vote on sensitive issues. Members don't want to disclose their votes, only want them to be securely counted.…
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Possible setup for a direct democracy voting system to prevent fraud
My Government is designing a direct democratic voting system and would like the system to be open sourced and unable to be corrupted by individuals and other stakeholders.
Some requirements as of now:
Citizen individual votes shall remain…
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Is this voting system secure in an information theory sense?
This is the question that I am trying to create a voting system for, and I wanted to submit it for belittlement.
It's a remote voting system, and our voters need to show evidence they supported the basilisk after the election if it wins. This is a…
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Can ROM checksum checker reliably defend against non-physical tampering/hacking of a voting machine?
Every time there are elections in USA, questions of the security vulnerabilities and hacking/tampering with voting machines are raised (I'm sure that it's not US-only phenomenon, either).
Obviously, preventing hardware level hacks is a whole…
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«Secret ballot» requirement for a distributed e-voting system
There are lots of discussions about electronic voting vs paper-based voting and technical concerns about it. So here's another one.
There are some concepts that are very similar to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Suppose such open distributed…
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Can I hide information from the device I use to encrypt it?
Assume I have some Information (i.e. my choice during an election) I want my device to encrypt. At the same time i don't want my device to know the meaning of the information it decrypts.
Example: Before voting I get a ballot and a coding card that…
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How can a "cosmic radiation bitflip" possibly change the election results?
I started watching this ridiculous video before I had to quit it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8
It talks about how the election of some country got messed up due to a "bitflip", which gave one person 4096 votes due to "cosmic rays"…
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Can a voting machine know that it is being audited?
Consider an electronic voting system with two goals: (1) ensure that the vote of each voter is correctly counted, and (2) ensure that no voter can create a proof of his/her/their vote. The reasoning for (1) is to ensure that the intent of majority…
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Google forms for school election
I have been incharged to manage online votings at school for school president and vice president for 11th grade only. A group of us will be excluded from voting of course. We plan to use Google forms, since it's easier and it's free.
So, everyone…
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Risks and challenges of an online voting system. Any recent updates?
I'm studying and preparing a document for implementing an online voting system (internet based system) which can be used for governmental voting purposes. I would like to ask for your advise and suggestions regarding threats, weaknesses, risks and…
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