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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Is automated and digitized ballot processing inherently more dangerous than manual pencil and paper?
This is on a somewhat layman's level. I'm not a security guru.
Looking at this in very, very broad and general terms:
Election fraud is definitely a serious issue that needs to guarded against pretty heavily, ideally by many third-party officials…
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Online votes where two-part codes are sent together
A lot of societies that I am a member of allow online voting for their AGMs (to elect members, approve minutes, etc). To vote in these all members are sent out a two part code - however the two codes are always sent together either in an email or a…
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What if the voting machine is the adversary (Distributed Knowledge/Trust)
I read some e-voting questions here, but most deal with simple things like securing the connection from external attackers. But they usually put implicit trust on the central voting authority to be honest.
So assume you have 1000 Voters, and a…
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Creating a semi-anonymous voting system
I'm working with a model government simulation for fun over on reddit. I was wondering if there is a way that I could improve anonymity of votes and ensure that all votes are legitimate. This is the way that we currently do things:
A voting form…
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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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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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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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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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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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Electronic Voting System Proposal: What are the flaws?
I just thought of an electronic voting system and wanted to write it down. After writing 1 line in a text editor, I thought I should share it here and ask you about the flaws in it. Let's see if you can find some.
The goals of this system are:
to…
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