Electronic Voting Systems Research Papers (original) (raw)

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- Elections, Electronic Voting Systems, Eletronic Voting Machine

An Online Voting System is a web based system that facilitates the running of elections online. Most higher learning institutions in Kenya conduct elections regularly in order to elect a student leadership to elect them. The elections conducted are mainly manual hence they are marred with irregularities which usually affect negatively the results of the election. In this era of advanced technology where online systems boosts work speed, reduces mistakes and promote the generation of accurate results, having a manual system like the paper-based version becomes a misfortune. An online system, which involves procedures like registration of voters, vote casting, vote counting, and declaring results etc. would constitute a good solution to replace current system that is in the universities in Kenya. Online systems have the advantage of providing convenience to the voter and reduce the time wasted in the queuing process at election centers and also promote security in the voting process. This paper hence describes the UVS which is a web-based online voting system that helps facilitate voting on the internet by providing a platform students are provided with an online registration form which requires them to register as voters, and then the details filled on the form are submitted in the database which then approves the user who can then login into the UVS and cast their vote. The UVS was developed using the waterfall model due to the adaptive nature of web based applications and the system proved that a computerized solution is possible with elimination of human related faults that are a commonplace in employment of human clerks to manage the election process. This paper has proposed the basic structure of the system and its functionality which can be employed to replace the current electoral system used in Universities.

A fair voting process is a fundamental part of any system that works in a democratic manner as it gives individuals the power to voice their opinion. The existing system incorporates Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) that stores data locally and is centralized which makes it point of weakness. Since the data is stored locally over the EVM(s) until the end of the elections it could be hacked. Moreover, there have actually been incidents of "booth-hijacking" that have taken place in some places during the elections. In the recent years there have been lots of accusations of EVM being hacked and the elections manipulated due to it. Unfortunately, there is no methodology incorporated into the existing system which could be used to prove that the a particular vote has been casted successfully and the EVM was not hacked. The blockchain is an emerging, decentralized, and distributed technology that promises to enhance different aspects of many industries. With the blockchain being a practically hack-proof way of logging transactions, expanding e-voting into blockchain technology could be the solution to alleviate the present concerns in e-voting. This paper presents a blockchain based e-voting system, named VoteEth that is secure and reliable. It will increase accessibility as the users could cast their votes without paying a visit to the polling booths. VoteEth utilizes Ethereum's blockchain and smart contracts for its implementation.

- by Francis Alterado
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- Electronic Voting Systems

Computer has effectively attracted a great deal of attention in recent timesdus to its automation process and its effect in the society. Computer is primarily concerned with accuracy, conservation and efficiency. In conclusion, the basic goal of this project is to design an efficient system that will ensure credible, free and fair election in Nigeria. It will lighten the productivity times while providing the effective, efficient and accurate service demanded by the public. This makes web-based voting system the most convenient, democratic, verifiable, accurate, secure and efficient voting system in use today. The methodology used in designing the program is waterfall model. Waterfall model is a sequential process in which each phase of the design must be completed before proceeding to another phase. The phases involved in waterfall model includes; requirement analysis, system design, implementation and unit testing, integration and system testing, operation and maintenance. MYSQL server will be used to create the database for the design. The database design for this system has four tables. The choice of programming language is very important when developing any system. In the development of this program, the researcher made use of Programming Languages converted to .exe to work together. These Programming Languages are: PHP on Dreamweaver platform and The database used for this system is MYSQL. The impact of web-based voting system on elections has been highlighted and should not be overemphasized. Therefore, the following are recommended for effective implementation and operation of a web-based voting system. Proper voting awareness should be carried out on the electorate to enable them know how to use it. Computer literacy should be completely encouraged. Adequate security measures should be put in place to prevent fraud. Reliable network interconnectivity, reinforced database servers should be put in place. Reliable power supply should be put into place by the management to ensure that the computer systems are on and ready to run the program.

- by OMINI MOSES
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- Electronic Voting Systems

Data is an important thing as a base of an analytic or a hypothesis for concluding participant vote data in the Indonesian General Election. The data needs to be processed and secured, so the integrity of the data is in good condition. It also needs to protect the participant voting rights, so the information is correctly displayed. The research problems include creating a system that protects the integrity of election data and creating a system that protects election rights for each voter. Based on the problems, this research discusses a blockchain-based electronic voting information system that would secure the integrity of data and also protecting the participant voting rights in a General Election. The system uses Ethereum as a blockchain with Solidity as a programming language to build a smart contract and is built in Microsoft Windows platform. In this research, consortium blockchain and biometric fingerprint authentication are used as a problem-solving method, and waterfall steps are used as a system development method. The result of this research is a proposed design of the e-voting system. The conclusion based on this research is a blockchain-based e-voting system that secures the integrity of the data in a selection process and ensures protection to each vote right.

- by Johan Setiawan and +1
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- Information Security, E-voting, Electronic Voting Systems, Block Chain

Ethereum is an open-source, public, block chain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. In this paper, we proposed an Ethereum based electronic voting (e-voting) protocol, Ques-Chain, which can ensure the authentication can be done without hurting confidentiality and the anonymity can be protected without problems of scams at the same time. Furthermore, the authors considered the wider usages Ques-Chain can be applied on, pointing out that it is able to process all kinds of messages and can be used in all fields with similar needs.

Indonesia adalah negara demokrasi yang menggunakan pemungutan suara untuk pemilihan anggota legislatif, presiden ataupun kepala daerah. Hingga saat ini kebanyakan metode yang digunakan dalam pemungutan suara masih menggunakan kertas suara yang mempunyai banyak kelemahan. E-voting merupakan salah satu solusi yang diharapkan dapat menutupi kekurangan yang terjadi pada saat pemungutan suara menggunakan kertas suara. Dalam implementasinya Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan teknologi (BPPT) telah mengembangkan perangkat e-voting yang telah berhasil diimplementasikan untuk pemilihan kepala desa di beberapa kabupaten di Indonesia. Dalam makalah ini akan dibahas mengenai kekuatan, kelemahan, peluang dan ancaman dari implementasi e-voting di Indonesia dengan menggunakan analisis SWOT.

- by Iwan Krisnadi
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- Electronic Voting Systems

—Free and fair elections is known to be central to good governance. The interregnum between the time voting is concluded and results declared is often used by mischief makers to manipulate the results of elections. This work presents ways and means of reducing the time between voting activities and results publication to the barest minimum. This is done by automatically transmitting, collating and publishing results from urban and remote places to central servers. Nigeria with its huge population, large mass area, and an extensive difficult terrain without internet access presents us with an appropriate case to study. This method will be applicable to similar electoral constituencies especially in developing countries.A results collation and transmission system was designed and implemented using Nigerian Elections as a case study. Election results are collated from every polling points (about 132,000 locations) sent using a mobile application to a central server. These results are collated using an SQL database. Collated results are subsequently displayed in a result portal using PHP. This process leads to a huge reduction in the time it takes to collate and publish election results and subsequently leading to a free and fair elections. The tests conducted show an 95% effectiveness in the transmitted result and a reduction of Result transmission time from about 3 days to 6 hours.

- by Ismaila Lukman
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- Elections, Electronic Voting Systems

The advancement in the mobile devices, wireless and web technologies given rise to the new application that will make the voting process very easy and efficient. The E-voting promises the possibility of convenient, easy and safe way to capture and count the votes in an election[1]. This research project provides the specification and requirements for E-Voting using an Android platform. The e-voting means the voting process in election by using electronic device. The android platform is used to develop an e-voting application. At first, an introduction about the system is presented. Sections II and III describe all the concepts (survey, design and implementation) that would be used in this work. Finally, the proposed e-voting system will be presented. This technology helps the user to cast the vote without visiting the polling booth. The application follows proper authentication measures in order to avoid fraud voters using the system. Once the voting session is completed the results can be available within a fraction of seconds. All the candidates vote count is encrypted and stored in the database in order to avoid any attacks and disclosure of results by third person other than the administrator. Once the session is completed the admin can decrypt the vote count and publish results and can complete the voting process.

E-Voting has been attracting a lot of interest in the country and has been a subject for discussion in various media
during the past years after elections. The current method of voting during general elections in Ghana is through paper base
voting which comes with a lot of problems ranging from delay in voting resulting in long queues, double voting, result
manipulations, spoilt votes due to wrong thumb-printing and delay in declaring results. To study seeks to investigate the
feasibility of e-voting implementation in Ghana. The findings of this research will likely generate greater awareness about the
e-voting system in Ghana and also provide useful knowledge to stakeholders about the benefit of e-voting system and also
provide useful knowledge in policy formulation concerning Ghana elections. The study adopted mainly exploratory and
descriptive analysis as well as a combination of qualitative and quantitative data collection approaches. Purposive and simple
random techniques were used in selection and administering of questionnaires to employees of Electoral Commission and
the voting population from selected regions in Ghana. The result of the findings shows that for e-voting system
implementation to be successful, Government must show strong commitment to provide support by securing donor fund to
improve on the existing infrastructure and provide the needed resources to support the successful implementation. The
study also shows that Government need to improve infrastructure in most part of the country and Electoral Commission
should also embark on educating the people on e-voting and creating awareness. It was recommended that e-voting for now
should be implemented on pilot basis and run alongside paper voting until infrastructure is available nationwide

- by Alexander Osei-owusu
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- Electronic Voting Systems

Building a secure electronic voting system that offers the fairness and privacy of current voting schemes. "Vote", the word means to determine or to elect or select from a list or who will run the country or the organization or a group. To find leaders selected by people is the prime aim of voting. In this work-in-progress paper, we evaluate an application which providing security with OTP login.

- by IJRASET Publication
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- Voting Theory, E-voting, Electronic Voting Systems, otp security

The question of the possibility of having credible elections, free from manipulation has been an age-long subject of both public and academic discourse. Transparency and integrity of the election processes are essential to enhance voter's confidence. The distributed e-voting system described in this paper ensures the prevention of electoral malpractices by automatically collecting results and displaying them in real-time. Existing systems are not credible enough because they do not provide real-time election results. The appropriate model and architecture of the system to ensure fraud-free and credible elections can be found in this article.

In this paper, we base our research on biometric systems security. We begin by introducing biometrics after which we will describe how a biometric system works before we later define what a biometric template is. Thereafter, we will explore attacks on biometric systems and lay more emphasis on biometric template attacks and explore attacks targeting biometric templates in a biometric system database. These attacks motivated us to study the existing biometric template protection schemes and techniques currently in use to determine their strengths and weaknesses. In the end, we summarize this study in the conclusion section of the paper.

- by Joseph Mwema
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- Computer Science, Information Security, Facial Recognition, ICT in Education

We all live in a rushing, always moving and changing network society where saving time became one of the most important things. Different kinds of e-services both from the private and public sectors are meant to facilitating our lives, make dealing with issues easier, faster, and cheaper than the traditional ways. In addition, the whole society became more mobile in the last few decades than it used to be, and as a result, the need for remote-(public)-administration is essential. As a parallel process, e-democracy and e-government evolved to serve the changing needs and to make proceedings more time-and cost-effective. One of the recent extensions of e-democracy is electronic voting which provides great opportunities, but threats, too. This paper aims to collect the general issues of e-voting, its features, and sub-types, the pros, and cons of its application.

- by Kiss Lilla Nóra
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- Modernization, E-voting, Electronic Voting Systems, Innovative Society

The technology of the decentralized distributed register (blockchain, that can be used for the problem resolution of carrying out democratic elections and, if taken more widely, for any vote on socially significant questions. Examples of approbation of voting systems on the basis of blockchain in Russia (at the corporate level), Estonia, Australia are given.

While the development of e-government since the early 1990s has been characterized by many successful applications and systems, it has also been notable for a number of failures to fully realise visions and for several stalled ideas. Governments, professionals and indeed scholars have a tendency to embrace the latest technological developments before older ones have been fully exploited or in some cases even fully understood and this can leave a trail of uncompleted projects in its wake. The future success of e-government depends in part on understanding this phenomenon, addressing it and developing the ability to discern when a technology or concept is no longer of value and therefore should be abandoned and when a task needs to be finished properly, no matter how unglamorous that task may be.

งานวิจัยนี้ทำการศึกษารูปแบบวิธีการลงคะแนนเสียงเลือกตั้งและวิธีการในการชดเชยให้ผู้มาใช้สิทธิลงคะแนนเลือกตั้งโดยรัฐของกลุ่มประเทศที่มีประชาธิปไตยระดับแนวหน้า เพื่อเปรียบเทียบข้อดี-ข้อเสีย ผลกระทบที่เกิดขึ้น ทั้งในแง่ปริมาณ เช่น จำนวนผู้ออกมาใช้สิทธิ และเชิงคุณภาพ เช่น ระดับการพัฒนาประชาธิปไตยของประเทศโดยภาพรวม และบริบทที่เหมาะสมสำหรับการนำรูปแบบวิธีการลงคะแนนเสียงเลือกตั้งและมาตรการ ในการชดเชยให้ผู้มาใช้สิทธิลงคะแนนเลือกตั้งโดยรัฐแต่ละแนวทางไปใช้ ตลอดจนการทบทวนบทเรียนเกี่ยวกับรูปแบบ วิธีการ และมาตรการที่ประเทศไทยเคยใช้ เพื่อพิจารณาทางเลือกที่เป็นไปได้สำหรับการพัฒนาปรับปรุงรูปแบบวิธีการลงคะแนนเสียงเลือกตั้ง รวมถึงวิธีการที่เหมาะสมในการชดเชยให้ผู้มาใช้สิทธิลงคะแนนเลือกตั้งของประเทศไทย

- by Stithorn Thananithichot
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- Electronic Voting, Elections, Voting, E-voting

ABUAN, ALFLORENCE D., BALLESTEROS, MARK JANSEN D., MONTIZON, JAKE G., PALPAL-LATOC, ARNOLD ERICK MIKKO G., SEVILLA, STEVEN L. (2022). DMMMSU-MLUC STUDENT GOVERNMENT ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM. Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. Don... more

E-voting has become a significant challenge in the twenty-first century. Nowadays, everybody has smartphones that they use daily. Therefore, it could allow citizens to use their own devices to select an option in suffrage in seconds. Researchers around the globe proposed numerous solutions to make this possible, but none of them is flawless by design. The demand is for a system that is entirely reliable remotely in the case of a statewide election, from the state's perspective and the individual's. The system's protocol should also consider privacy and leverage; undoubtedly, the voters should stay anonymous by casting a vote without anybody knowing its content until the tally. Nevertheless, no implementation has been described yet, such as all the previously mentioned conditions are fulfilled.

- by Hugo Lageneste
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- Cryptography, Electronic Voting Systems

In this paper, a new transaction protocol based on electronic cash using a modified ElGamal signature and a secure blind signature scheme is proposed. With the extension of untraceable electronic cash, a fair transaction protocol is designed which can maintain anonymity and double spender detection and attaches expiration date to coins so that the banking system can manage its databases more efficiently. The security of the system is based on discrete logarithm problem and factoring problem.Also our protocol has better performance than similar protocols. So the new protocol is very efficient.

- by IJICTR Journal
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- Digital Signature, Electronic Payment Systems, RSA, Blind Signature

Despite certain political, organizational, technological and socioeconomic benefits that e-voting brings, governments around the world are beginning one by one to denounce its further use in the electoral process. In this regard, the paper aims to analyze reasons that led to the discontinuation of e-voting, resorting to the case of Kazakhstan, a transitional post-soviet country, which actively used the technology in 2004-2011, as a poster child of the global trend, elaborating on key political, socioeconomic, organizational and technological risks that could be associated with the possible return of this innovation in future elections.

- by Maxat Kassen
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- Electronic Voting, Elections, Elections and Voting Behavior, Electronic Democracy

General population survey results report on internet voting in Switzerland, 2016

- by Uwe Serdült and +2
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- Internet Studies, Electronic Voting, E-voting, Voting Systems

Peer Instruction (PI) is an evidence based pedagogy commonly used in undergraduate physics instruction. When asked questions designed to test conceptual understanding, it has been observed that the proportion of students choosing the correct answer increases following peer discussion; however, relatively little is known about what takes place during these discussions or how they are beneficial to the processes of learning physics [M. C. James and S. Willoughby, Am. J. Phys. 79, 123 (2011)]. In this paper a framework for analyzing PI discussions developed through the lens of the “resources model” [D. Hammer, Am. J. Phys. 64, 1316 (1996); D. Hammer et al., Information Age Publishing (2005)] is proposed. A central hypothesis for this framework is that the dialogue with peers plays a crucial role in activating appropriate cognitive resources, enabling the students to see the problem differently, and therefore to answer the questions correctly. This framework is used to gain greater insights into the PI discussions of first year undergraduate physics students at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which were recorded using Livescribe Smartpens. Analysis of the dialogues revealed three different types of resource activation corresponding to increasing cognitive grain size. These were activation of knowledge elements, activation of linkages between knowledge elements, and activation of control structures (epistemic games and epistemological frames). Three case studies are examined to illustrate the role that peer dialogue plays in the activation of these cognitive resources in a PI session. The implications for pedagogical practice are discussed.

- by Anna Wood
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- Physics Education, Peer Instruction, Electronic Voting Systems

The shift to direct recording electronic machines that has been fueled by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 has raised some important concerns. Some question the security of the machines and the possibility of a manufacturer's political agenda affecting device integrity. Others are concerned with a lack of a paper trail in some jurisdictions for verification purposes during an electoral dispute. After an exploration of the evolution of voting machine technology and the pros and cons of electronic voting machines, the authors offer a system of checks and balances, using both a printed ticket — including a barcode for checksum verification — in combination with peripheral devices that can monitor a voting machine electronically, independent of the voting machine itself.

- by Jeremy Craig and +2
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- Information Security, Elections, Voting Systems, Secure Electronic Voting
- by Dibya Dahal
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- Computer Science, Electronic Voting, Biometrics, Fingerprint Classification
- by Fati Tahiru
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- Electronic Voting Systems

Every ethnic, religious, and gender communities have electorates living with disability. They represent approximately 0.15 percent of the world's population roughly one out of every seven. When appropriate mechanism is not in place for such large volume of populace to fully participate in the electoral process, it deters democracy from giving this subset of populace a choice from how they wish to be governed. Electorate voice biometric modality could serve as credential to recognize legitimate voters. The voice recognition process relies on features influenced by the physical attribute of vocal tract and the behavioral features of the individual. Voice biometrics differs from other biometric techniques, in that speech samples are captured dynamically over a period of time. Incorporating technologies like the voice recognition system for authentication for the disabled is a huge step in increasing trust and inclusive participation in the democratic process. In this paper, we present V-authenticate, a voice authentication system to address the issue of valid voter's recognition and verification for the disabled electorate using their voice trait as biometric input parameter. The developed system was evaluated objectively using Mean Square Error (MSE) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) qualitative metrics. The result of analysis system performance showed an average MSE value of 0.7 and PSNR was 42.9214 decibel showing the consistency of the applied algorithms to authenticate valid electorate living with disability. The system can be adapted by voting authority to enable electorate living with disability to participate in future electronic democratic decision making.

- by Olayemi M Olaniyi and +1
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- Information Security, Electronic Voting, Computer Security, Electronic Governance

Electronic voting systems (EVS) have enjoyed widespread use in university classrooms since the 1990s, primarily in disciplines such as the STEMM and business subjects. In this narrative account, I explore the adoption of this learning technology within the less well-documented domain of arts and humanities education, incorporating my motivation for starting to use EVS, the development of these teaching activities over time, and their impact on the student learning experience. It outlines several of the many different ways in which EVS has been employed within my classes, including multiple choice questions (MCQs), polls of audience opinion, questions for which there is more than one equally valid answer, and the use of Likert scales, multiple responses, priority ranking, conditional branching, demographic comparison, moment to moment, and text-based responses. It discusses pedagogies associated with EVS such as peer instruction and game-based/team-based learning, addresses some of the reasons that may hitherto have discouraged arts and humanities teaching from embracing EVS more wholeheartedly, and considers the use of EVS in tandem with other learning technologies including lecture capture, flipped teaching, and online discussion forums. Finally, it offers advice (much of it transferrable to disciplines beyond the arts and humanities, as well as beyond higher education itself) on a range of pedagogical and technological issues for the benefit of those contemplating the adoption of EVS in their teaching, and reflects on the future potential of EVS and some of its most recent developments.

- by Christopher Wiley
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- Education, Higher Education, Electronic Voting, Learning and Teaching
- by Ijmset Journal
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- Electronic Voting Systems

Computer voting was introduced in Belgium in 1994. Paradoxically, no action had been taken to ascertain the opinion of electors confronted with this original method of voting. This article verifies the social and empirical dimensions of legitimacy of this new method through several empirical indicators used in a survey conducted on the occasion of the federal elections of 18 May 2003: (a) how easy/difficult it was for electors to vote on a computer; (b) to what extent they trust voting
on a computer; (c) if they have a philosophical/social opposition to voting on a computer.

- by Pascal Delwit
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- Voting Behavior, Electronic Voting, Electoral Behavior, Electoral Systems

Voting technology today has not addressed the issues that disabled voters are confronted with at the polls. Because approximately 17% of the voting population is disabled, their issues should be handled with a solution geared towards... more

- by Brianna Posadas
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- Electronic Voting, Virtual Reality, Voting Systems, Intelligent User Interfaces

Free and fair elections is known to be central to good governance. The interregnum between the time voting is concluded and results declared is often used by mischief makers to manipulate the results of elections. This work presents ways and means of reducing the time between voting activities and results publication to the barest minimum. This is done by automatically transmitting, collating and publishing results from urban and remote places to central servers. Nigeria with its huge population, large mass area, and an extensive difficult terrain without internet access presents us with an appropriate case to study. This method will be applicable to similar electoral constituencies especially in developing countries.A results collation and transmission system was designed and implemented using Nigerian Elections as a case study. Election results are collated from every polling points (about 132,000 locations) sent using a mobile application to a central server. These results are co...

- by Steve Adeshina
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- Elections, Electronic Voting Systems

this paper talk about electronic voting system security

- by Hol Bull
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- Electronic Voting, Electronic Voting Systems

La incorporación de nuevas tecnologías a los ámbitos de la política y el gobierno es una tendencia mundial en ascenso. En varios países la automatización del voto con el uso de urnas mecánicas, urnas electrónicas e Internet se han convertido en un signo de modernidad. Los sistemas de voto electrónico no son una alternativa que va ganando adeptos por su viabilidad técnica. No obstante, implica incrementar la complejidad de los procesos electorales y se enfrenta al dilema de convencer a la ciudadanía de que las nuevas tecnologías utilizadas de las elecciones son confiables. En este artículo se repasan las experiencias de voto electrónico en el mundo y se señalan los dilemas más significativos.

- by Fernando Barrientos Del Monte and +1
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- Electoral Systems, Electoral Studies, Sistemas Electorales, Electronic Voting Systems

E-voting failures to increase public confidence in elections, improve political participation and deliver public services have often been overlooked for the sake of bureaucratic convenience. There is also a growing belief among developing countries that technology is the only solution for credible elections. This present study critically reviews the current state of research on e-voting in developing countries through a systematic examination of sixty seven academic papers. The findings reveal a lack of research continuity and that there is evidence of leapfrogging in the current studies where socio-technical system design processes have preceded strategic design inquiries. This paper then propounds the use of Socio-Technical Systems theory to perceive the technology and proposes courses for future research on e-voting in developing countries.

- by Barış ÇUKURBAŞI and +2
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- Electronic Voting, Audience Response Systems (ARS), Electronic Voting Systems