Implementing and evaluating a software-independent voting system for polling station elections

Budurushi, Jurlind; Jöris, Roman; Volkamer, Melanie

doi:10.1016/j.jisa.2014.03.001

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“…The percentage of participants that have privacy concerns is smaller compared to the study conducted by Budurushi et al [3], 21% v.s. 39.9% respectively, however not sufficient in the context of electronic voting.…”

Section: Discussion and Future Workcontrasting

confidence: 63%

“…The studies conducted by Budurushi et al [3] and Llewellyn et al [10] showed that voters have concerns regarding privacy of their votes, when PATs containing information other than the plaintext vote are used [3] and [10]. Llewellyn et al [10] conducted a user study at the University of Surrey, UK in June/July 2011.…”

Section: Privacy Concerns In Previous Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Budurushi et al [3] report about the results of a test election, which was combined with an exit survey and took place alongside the university elections at Technische Universität Darmstadt in June 2013. The electronic voting system used in the user study implemented the EasyVote system proposed by Volkamer et al [15].…”

Section: Privacy Concerns In Previous Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First Approach: Coping Appraisal After the initial questions participants were first confronted with a summary of the concerns that was deduced from the results of the study conducted by Budurushi et al [3]. The concern statement in the survey was the following: "In the election poll workers recorded names on the electoral register, sequentially.…”

Section: Approaches To Address Participants' Privacy Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, less time and human resources are required. However, previous studies [3] and [10] report that voters have concerns regarding vote secrecy, when PATs with additional information (e.g. encryption of the vote or a QR-Code that encodes the plaintext vote) other than the plaintext vote are used.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Paper Audit Trails and Voters’ Privacy Concerns

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Advances in information technology have simplified many processes in our lives. However, in many cases trust issues arise when new technology is introduced, and voting is one prominent example. To increase voters' trust, current e-voting systems provide paper audit trails (PATs) which enable automatic tally and/or manual audit of the election result. PATs may contain only the encrypted vote or the plaintext vote in human-readable and/or machine-readable format. Previous studies report voter privacy concerns with PATs containing additional information (e.g. QR-Codes) other than the human-readable plaintext vote. However, omitting such PATs negatively influences security and/or efficiency. Hence, to address these concerns we applied the coping and threat appraisal principles of the protection motivation theory in the communication process. We evaluated them in separate surveys focused on the EasyVote system [15]. Results show that the coping appraisal is more promising than the threat appraisal approach. While our findings provide novel directions on addressing privacy concerns in the e-voting context, corresponding limitations need to be considered for future user studies.

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Section: Discussion and Future Workcontrasting

confidence: 63%

Section: Privacy Concerns In Previous Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Privacy Concerns In Previous Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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An investigation into the usability of electronic voting systems for complex elections

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Many studies on electronic voting evaluate their usability in the context of simple elections. Complex elections, which take place in many European countries, also merit attention. The complexity of the voting process, as well as that of the tallying and verification of the ballots, makes usability even more crucial in this context. Complex elections, both paper-based and electronic, challenge voters and electoral officials to an unusual extent. In this work we present two studies of an electronic voting system that is tailored to the needs of complex elections. In the first study we evaluate the effectiveness of the ballot design with respect to motivating voters to verify their ballot. Furthermore, we identify factors that motivate voters to verify, or not to verify, their ballot. The second study also addresses the effectiveness of the ballot design in terms of verification, but this time from the electoral officials' perspective. Last, but not least, we evaluate the usability of the implemented EasyVote prototype from both the voter and electoral official perspectives. In both studies we were able to improve effectiveness, without impacting effi-This project (HA project no. 435/14-25) is funded in the framework of Hessen ModellProjekte, financed with funds of LOEWE Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlichkonomischer Exzellenz, Frderlinie 3: KMU-Verbundvorhaben (State Offensive for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence).

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