Observing Threats to Voter?s Anonymity: Election Observation of Electronic Voting

fonte:http://www.e-voting.cc/static/evoting/files/Working-Paper-1-2006.pdf
acesso:23-10-2009
Electronic voting, as one of the main
applications of Electronic Democracy, has
come to the attention of many governments in
their movement to modernize elections.
Although very popular with many visionaries
and politicians, there is a lot of controversy for
the use of electronic means in elections.
Especially in young democracies, so-called
democracies in transition have to invite
international election observers to raise the
level of transparency and to calm discussions.
There exists a lot of documentation and
guidelines on the topic of election observation
of paper-based voting. As the observation of
electronic voting processes is very new, there
exists little to no experience with it. In this
paper, the authors present a model for how to
detect threats to the voter?s anonymity using
common criteria methodology. The work is
based on experiences in the 2005
parliamentary elections in Venezuela, as evoting
experts to audit the parliamentarian
elections where e-voting machines with a
voter verifiable audit trail were used. To do
so, a background on electronic voting in
Venezuela is first given; then the Common
Criteria methodology is described and applied
it to the e-voting process. Finally, a
summarized model of how to observe
elections with electronic voting machines is
discussed.
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Voting Electronic Democracy observer to paper the authors present a model how experience in Venezuela first give a background on electronic
voting in Venezuela is given then the
Common Criteria methodology is described
and applied it to the e-voting process. Finally,
they come up with the summarized model of
how to observe elections with electronic
voting machines.