A blockchain is a distributed, digitized and consensus-based secure information storage
mechanism. The present article provides an overview of blockchain based e-voting systems …

To this day, abstention rates continue to rise, largely due to the need to travel to vote. This is
why remote e-voting will increase the turnout by allowing everyone to vote without the need …

Voters are understandably concerned about election security. News reports of possible
election interference by foreign powers, of unauthorized voting, of voter disenfranchisement …

In the 2018 midterm elections, West Virginia became the first state in the US to allow select
voters to cast their ballot on a mobile phone via a proprietary app called “Voatz.” Although …

Electronic voting (e-voting) presents a convenient and cost-effective alternative to current
paper ballot-based voting. It provides many benefits such as increased voter turnout and …

Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) for many social choice functions can be reduced to testing sets of
null hypotheses of the form “the average of this list is not greater than 1/2” for a collection of …

Ballots are the core records of elections. Electronic records of actual ballots cast (cast vote
records) are available to the public in some jurisdictions. However, they have been released …

We show that, in some ranked ballot elections, it may be possible to violate the secret vote.
There are so many ways to rank even a handful of candidates that many possible rankings …

The rapid advancement of internet technology has raised attention to the importance of
electronic voting in maintaining democracy and fairness in elections. E-voting refers to the …

People who are involved with political campaigns face increased digital security threats from
well-funded, sophisticated attackers, especially nation-states. Improving political campaign …