Introducing Precautionary Behavior by Temporal Diversion of Voter Attention from Casting to Verifying their Vote

Budurushi, Jurlind; Woide, Marcel; Volkamer, Melanie

doi:10.14722/usec.2014.23037

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“…Therefore, in the user study we integrated voter verifiability instructions, which we have developed by Budurushi et. al [12]. The verifiability instructions and their integration in the vote casting process are presented in Figure 3.…”

Section: Instructions For Votersmentioning

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

Budurushi

Jöris

Volkamer

2014

Journal of Information Security and Applications

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In 2009 the German Federal Constitutional Court introduced the principle of "public nature of elections" [1]. This principle requires that when using electronic voting systems it must be possible for the citizen to verify the essential steps in the election process and in the ascertainment of the results reliably and without special expert knowledge. Unfortunately, none of the existing systems complies with this principle. As a result, the use of electronic voting systems in Germany for parliamentary elections has stopped. Nevertheless, electronic voting systems are necessary and would improve the situation, especially for elections with complex ballots and voting rules, for example some local elections in Germany or parliamentary elections in Belgium and Luxembourg. The concept proposed by Volkamer et al. [2] was analyzed by a legal expert and evaluated to comply with the German legal requirements for local elections in the state of Hesse [3]. In this paper we specify and concretize processes that were left open in the concept, and implement a prototype. We evaluated this prototype in a user study that was conducted alongside the university elections at the Technische Universtität Darmstadt in June 2013. The results of the study show that most of the participants were satisfied with the prototype and would support its use for the upcoming university elections. We also report some lessons learned.

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Section: Instructions For Votersmentioning

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

Budurushi

Jöris

Volkamer

2014

Journal of Information Security and Applications

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“…Post-questionnaire. This questionnaire serves to compare the results of our study with the results presented by Budurushi et al [11]. Thus, we compare participants' self-reported answers and their actual behaviour with respect to verifying their printed ballot.…”

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“…The treatment group was provided with the stimulus proposed by Budurushi et al [11]: pre-printed verification instructions on the reverse of the printed ballot. The control group was provided with a printed ballot with nothing printed on the reverse.…”

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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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“…The idea is that the server detects the browser being used and displays the corresponding instructions. 7 Note that we are not implying that the any of these institutes have agreed to provide such a service. This proposed amelioration approach removes the need for manual recording and should thus ease the verification process.…”

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“…Similar conclusions were drawn by Herrnson et al [14] based on the times participants spend examining the printouts. Recently, Budurushi et al [7] reported a promising finding. The authors found that the number of voters verifying plain text VV-PATs increases significantly, if voters are confronted with pre-printed "just-in-time" verification instructions.…”

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Helios Verification: To Alleviate, or to Nominate: Is That the Question, or Shall we Have Both?

Neumann

Olembo

Renaud

et al. 2014

Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective

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Abstract. Helios is an end-to-end verifiable remote electronic voting system which has been used for elections in academic contexts. It allows voters to verify that their vote was cast, and included in the final tally, as intended. User studies have shown that voters are unlikely to perform this verification, probably due to the effortful and cumbersome manual steps that are required by the system. To address this challenge, we propose, in this paper, two improvements: the first is to ameliorate the cumbersome nature of the verification process as much as possible. We offer two suggestions for doing this. To accommodate voters who have no interest in verifying, we propose a further improvement: delegation. This will allow voters to nominate a trusted third party to perform the verification on their behalf as and when they cast their vote. Hence no extra effort is required, and we can exploit existing trust in public institutions to provide voters with the assurance that the voting process is indeed honest and above board. In addition to providing end-to-end verifiability in a less effortful manner, we provide stored as cast and tallied as stored verifiability as well, for voters who do not wish to verify their own votes.

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Introducing Precautionary Behavior by Temporal Diversion of Voter Attention from Casting to Verifying their Vote

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

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

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

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

Helios Verification: To Alleviate, or to Nominate: Is That the Question, or Shall we Have Both?

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