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How to improve electronic voting by Internet | In a new study, a researcher from the University of Basque Country has proposed improvements for electronic voting by Internet. The research was part of the PhD for University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) researcher, Maider Huarte Arrayago. Huarte started her PhD research with the analysis of systems for electronic voting by Internet.
As a result of this analysis, she observed that the current systems for electronic
voting by Internet complied with the principles of equality and secrecy. To this
end, in this work, Huarte studied the principles of universal suffrage and liberty,
and proposed a number of changes and improvements. As regards the principles of
liberty, the researcher proposed the following objectives: on the one hand, improving
reliability in order to boost the voluntary participation of the electors and
to achieve better results and, on the other hand, improve flexibility, thus providing
electors with a better way of making their opinion known. As regards universal
suffrage, the goals have been twofold: defining a human-machine interface that
takes into account the heterogeneity of the capacities of the electors and increasing
the mobility of electors without affecting communication protocols. To achieve
these objectives, Huarte put forward a number of solutions. Regarding liberty,
in order to improve reliability, for example, she reinforced robustness, transparency
and the lodging of private complaints. That is, in the system proposed by Huarte,
the only thing maintained in secret are the secret passwords to be employed in
the protocols. Likewise, she has drawn up the option for making private complaints
without compromising the secret of the ballot box. A number of measures have also
been established to improve flexibility: she defined systems and protocols that
do not affect the digital paper-vote format and the count methodology and, moreover,
the reader can interrupt the process of casting the vote at any time and start
again. Regarding the aims of universal suffrage, on the other hand, she proposed
enhancing the current interfaces and new ones for the future. After all these
provisions and proposals, Huarte concluded that certain characteristics of the
principle of liberty were limited by the cryptographic techniques employed on
complying with equality and the right to secrecy. She also observed that, with
reference to security, current techniques and tools or their use are not sufficient
if the software is not suitably created. |
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