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Lecture

Digital Voting Systems: Security and Verifiability

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CS-234: Technologies for democratic society

This course will offer students a broad but hands-on introduction to technologies of human self-organization. ...

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This lecture covers the security and verifiability aspects of digital voting systems, focusing on in-person and remote e-voting. Topics include protection against tampering, efficiency in ballot counting, input validation, and digital assistive technologies. The lecture also discusses the Swiss e-voting system, end-to-end verifiability, and the importance of trust, security, and privacy in electronic voting. It explores the challenges of ensuring the integrity of vote count, voter privacy, and the usability and scalability of e-voting systems.

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Instructors (2)

Verónica del Carmen Estrada Galiñanes

Bryan Alexander Ford

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Ontological neighbourhood

Politics

Political science: Comparative politics

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Electronic voting

Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting ballots. Depending on the particular implementation, e-voting may use standalone electronic voting machines (also called EVM) or computers connected to the Internet (online voting). It may encompass a range of Internet services, from basic transmission of tabulated results to full-function online voting through common connectable household devices.

Voting

Voting is a method by which a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, convenes together for the purpose of making a collective decision or expressing an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. Residents of a jurisdiction represented by an elected official are called "constituents", and the constituents who choose to cast a ballot for their chosen candidate are called "voters.

Vote counting

Vote counting is the process of counting votes in an election. It can be done manually or by machines. In the United States, the compilation of election returns and validation of the outcome that forms the basis of the official results is called canvassing. Counts are simplest in elections where just one choice is on the ballot, and these are often counted manually. In elections where many choices are on the same ballot, counts are often done by computers to give quick results.

Ballot

A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in voting. It was originally a small ball (see blackballing) used to record decisions made by voters in Italy around the 16th century. Each voter uses one ballot, and ballots are not shared. In the simplest elections, a ballot may be a simple scrap of paper on which each voter writes in the name of a candidate, but governmental elections use pre-printed ballots to protect the secrecy of the votes.

Ballot box

A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually a square box though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period. A ballot drop box allows voters who have received a ballot by mail to submit it for counting in a self-service fashion.

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