Electronic Voting: An All-Purpose Platform

fonte:http://www.springerlink.com/content/14hfuuety4ark28g/fulltext.pdf
acesso:23-10-2009

It is generally considered that a key component of electronic
government in the future will be electronic voting, as a means of facilitating
the participation of citizens in elections and public debates.
However, a long path has to be pursued before electronic voting, particularly
if based on Internet, is accepted as a reliable system alternative
to conventional methods. In this paper, we propose a new and simple
platform, based on open software, which can be used primarily in small
to medium sized communities, as a means to build confidence and experience
for future larger elections. We try to provide adequate answers to
multiple requirements, such as accuracy, democracy, privacy, verifiability
and mobility. This can be done by establishing a distributed system
which supports the different roles of a voting system and by using cryptography
techniques in the interactions between these components.