Secure Electronic Voting

**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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Evaluation of Voting Technology....Pages 3-16 In Search of the Perfect Voting Technology: No Easy Answers....Pages 17-30 Verification for Electronic Balloting Systems....Pages 31-42 Electronic Voting: Constitutional and Legal Requirements, and Their Technical Implications....Pages 43-60 Front Matter....Pages 61-61 Towards Secure and Practical E-Elections in the New Era....Pages 63-76 The Theory and Implementation of an Electronic Voting System....Pages 77-99 Secure Electronic Voting: the Current Landscape....Pages 101-122 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 Public Confidence and Auditability in Voting Systems....Pages 125-137 Robust Verifiable non-Interactive Zero-Sharing....Pages 139-151 Issues, Non-Issues, and Cryptographic Tools for Internet-Based Voting....Pages 153-164 Private, Secure and Auditable Internet Voting....Pages 165-179 Remote Voting via the Internet?....Pages 181-194 E-vote and PKI’s: a Need, a Bliss or a Curse?....Pages 195-209 Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses and Digital Pseudonyms....Pages 211-219 Back Matter....Pages 221-223