SELES: An e-Voting System for Medium Scale Online Elections

Abstract

Abstract-Recent advances in communication networks and cryptographic techniques have made possible to consider online voting systems as a feasible alternative to conventional elections. Until today several protocols for electronic voting have been proposed, unfortunately only a few of them have been implemented in an end-to-end fully functional system. In this paper we present a secure electronic voting system for medium scale on-line elections (SELES). Our system efficiently implements a security communication protocol offering protection against double voting and others frauds while avoiding any private voting channel. SELES accomplishes all the standard properties of conventional voting systems, namely, accuracy, democracy, privacy, verifiability, simplicity, flexibility and double voting detection. Our system has been tested in a distributed and heterogeneous Internet network comprised by workstations, laptops and PDA nodes interacting through wired and wireless connections. Additionally, SELES has been designed to deal with communication failures, thus achieving a certain degree of robustness.

Digitalisasi Demokrasi dalam Penerapan E-Voting Pada Pilkades di Kabupaten Bantaeng, Sulawesi Selatan

“…Transformasi digitalisasi demokrasi dengan sistem e-voting melalui pemanfaatan teknologi, memberikan solusi terhadap masalah yang terjadi dalam sistem pemungutan secara manual (voting). Pertimbangan utama terhadap penerapan sistem evoting adalah akurasi dan kecepatan (García-Zamora, Rodríguez-Henríquez, & Ortiz-Arroyo, 2005). Selain itu, hal mendasar pada sistem e-voting juga menjamin jalannya proses demokratisasi dengan menghadirkan tingkat partisipasi dan aksesibilitas dalam keterlibatan politik (Musiał-Karg & Kapsa, 2021) Pemungutan suara elektronik (e-voting) merupakan salah satu bentuk e-democracy yang semakin populer dan menarik dalam meningkatkan partisipasi publik karena dipandang sebagai inovasi baru dalam kontestasi politik (Musiał-Karg, 2014).…”

Using unified modelling language to model the publish/subscribe paradigm in the context of timed Web services with distributed resources

“…E-voting systems have been modelled by some research works [29,34,35]. Pilipovic and Babic [34] have designed an e-voting system for particular and specific populations (student population and parliament elections).…”

“…To illustrate this process, they consider use case, deployment, and SDs in order to design user interactions, components, and interactions among the objects, respectively. Garca-Zamora et al [35] present a secure e-voting system for medium scale online elections. They implement a security communication protocol against frauds and double voting.…”