EVOTE

Modules
Sample Videos
Organisational Scenarios
Benefits
Election Administration
System Architecture
Dowloads

What are the Benefits of EVOTE?

Voting Secrecy:

Once, the vote has been cast, anonymity is technically guaranteed by the cryptographic protocol in [1].

Safeguards against Malware:

The voting client is not a Web page, but a Java Applet. In contrast to simple Web pages, the Applet may validate all communications with the election server, check inputs, and run internal consistency checks. [2]

Safeguards against Third-Party Attacks:

All communication between the election server and the voting client is encrypted and authenticated.

Safeguards against Election Fraud:

Only the election committee may access the ballot, which is cryptographically protected from all unauthorized access. Opening of the ballot may depend on a unanimous committee decision or an ex-ante defined, unalterable majority quorum (for the cryptographic procedure, see [3]).

Auditable:

Extensive logging facilities are provided for the election committee and administration.

Flexible:

EVOTE supports main and preferential options, multiple constituencies per election, multiple votes, cumulating votes, splitting the ticket, several ballot sheet designs and voter identification modes. Confirmation and error texts displayed to the voter may be defined in a comfortable text editor.

Election Committee:

EVOTE provides a Common Administration Space for the committee members to jointly administrate an election that may be used simultaneously, even though the committee members work from different locations. Via the administration tool, the election committee creates an election and the ballot sheet, defines voting rights, jointly releases and monitors the election and finally opens the electronic ballot box.

[1] Prosser, A., Müller-Török, R.: E-Democracy – eine neue Qualität im demokratischen Entscheidungsprozess, Wirtschaftsinformatik 44(2002), pp. 545-556
[2] Prosser, A., Schiessl, K.: Elections via the Internet; Int. Journal of Public Admin. in Central and Eastern Europe 1/2007, pp. 28-38
[3] Prosser, A., Kofler, R., Krimmer, R., Unger, M.-K.: Implementation of quorum-based decisions in an election committee; LNCS 3183(2004), pp. 122-127