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Engineering better voting systems

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DocEng '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Document engineering

Pages 56 - 58

https://doi.org/10.1145/1166160.1166178

Published: 10 October 2006 Publication History

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We consider here an election ballot as a document, a document that works as the carrier of a voter's choice in an election's accounting system for determining a winning candidate. And we consider a voting system as a way to manage both the document and its flow in compliance with the requirements of the election. Trustworthy elections are the core of a democratic spirit and engineering a voting system with requirements of convenience, privacy, integrity and reliability lies at the core of trustworthy elections. We define here some clear requirements for a trustworthy voting system and analyze the most popular classes of voting systems according to some of these requirements. We draw conclusions on the engineering of better voting systems and show two efforts in this direction.

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Help America Vote Act, 2002, Federal Election Commission, http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm

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D. Jefferson, A. Rubin, B. Simons and D. Wagner, The SERVE report, March 2004, Dept. of Defense, http://www.servesecurityreport.org/

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Rebecca Mercuri, Notable Software Inc., http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html

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Documentation on Relia-VoteTM available at: http://www.pbdmt.com/solutions/info.htm

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Engineering better voting systems
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  1. Information systems applications

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DocEng '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Document engineering

October 2006

232 pages

ISBN:1595935150

DOI:10.1145/1166160

General Chair:
Dick Bulterman
CWI, Netherlands
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Program Chair:
David F. Brailsford
University of Nottingham, UK

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Published: 10 October 2006

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