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Survey on End-to-End Verifiable Cryptographic Voting Systems

by Labeeb Ahmed Qubati, Sherif Khattab, Ibrahim Farag
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 100 - Number 16
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Labeeb Ahmed Qubati, Sherif Khattab, Ibrahim Farag
10.5120/17612-8399

Labeeb Ahmed Qubati, Sherif Khattab, Ibrahim Farag . Survey on End-to-End Verifiable Cryptographic Voting Systems. International Journal of Computer Applications. 100, 16 ( August 2014), 43-57. DOI=10.5120/17612-8399

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author = { Labeeb Ahmed Qubati, Sherif Khattab, Ibrahim Farag },
title = { Survey on End-to-End Verifiable Cryptographic Voting Systems },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { August 2014 },
volume = { 100 },
number = { 16 },
month = { August },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 43-57 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume100/number16/17612-8399/ },
doi = { 10.5120/17612-8399 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%A Labeeb Ahmed Qubati
%A Sherif Khattab
%A Ibrahim Farag
%T Survey on End-to-End Verifiable Cryptographic Voting Systems
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 100
%N 16
%P 43-57
%D 2014
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Electronic voting refers to the using of computers or computerized voting equipments to cast ballots in the election. The e-voting has been developed for more than 20 years. In the electronic voting, there are three stages: the registration stage, the voting stage, and the tally stage. Verifiable cryptographic voting systems use encryption technology to secure electorate's votes and to avoid coerce them to vote for any particular candidate or to buy their votes, and any another threats. This research aims to obtain an electronic voting system could be used easily in the third world countries. In this research ten of existing cryptography verifiable voting systems have been studied, and especially focused on End-to-End verifiable voting systems, which is considered as the newest class of voting systems. In addition this paper took a system from another type of verifiable voting systems for a comparison purpose. The comparison between these systems has done according to a set of public evaluation contexts that is followed in any voting system such as: properties, cryptographic building block, ballot format, and models. This paper discusses seven of E2E voting systems, which are closer to deal with in the developing communities in order to modify any one of those systems for using in third world countries. This study concludes that most of the modern voting systems currently in place are not usable in the third world countries (despite the many positive achievements in many aspects) but can be adjusted to fit with these countries. In the future, the most appropriate E2E voting system will be chosen among systems which are mentioned in this study to be adjusted in order to fit in the third world countries.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Electronic voting Usability of system Third world societies.

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