Suitable Properties for Any Electronic Voting System

Elections and voting are fundamental to any consensus-based society. They are one of the most critical functions of democracy. There are a number of voting systems adopted all over the world with each of them having its peculiar problems. The manual voting system still appears prominent among the developed and developing nations, but with considerations being given to an electronic alternative with a view to showing most of the short comings. Furthermore, with the increased interest and attention on e-government, e-democracy and e-governance, e-voting initiatives have gained more significance. Thus, many countries are piloting with various e-voting models and systems in order to enable voting from anywhere; also, international organisations are developing standards and recommendations in this area. This paper details a review of the underlying concepts of e-voting and discusses some of the salient issues on the subject. Also, a review of common e-voting models, existing elections schemes and explanation of the usual terminologies associated with e-voting were presented.

We look at procedures for making a collective choice through approval-preferential voting. A new procedure of this kind is proposed that is in the spirit of Condorcet's last ideas on elections, namely making sure that a good choice is made rather than aiming at the best choice but not being so sure about it.

From the 1970s, the world has been undergoing the so-called “digital revolution” generally understood as the change from the me chanical and electronic technologies to the high tech, digital ones. The role of ICT has so gained in importance that some theoreticians of democracy speak of the necessity of paradigm changing as regards both the understanding of a democratic system and introdu-cing the notion of electronic democracy (e-democracy). The aim of this text is analyzing the electronic voting (e-voting) as one of important forms of electronic democracy. The article attempts at approaching several research questions. First, what is the impact of ICT on voting procedures? Secondly, what is the essence of electronic voting and what are its main features? Finally, what are the advantages and fears related to e-voting systems? This paper gives a theoretical overview of the electronic democracy and electronic voting, and demonstrates their essence, characteristics, goals. The author tries to present and critically assess the main drawbacks and problems of the existing e-voting systems. The theoretical considerations framework is based mainly on the concept of electronic democracy created by Martin Hagen. With reference to electronic voting, the author of this article uses definitions as given either by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, or the Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation. She also uses definitions constructed by Andrzej Kaczmarczyk, an e-voting expert.

1998

Abseact. In this work we attempt to evaluate the performance of different voting rules subject to d@erent sets of voters andparties. The method of investigation is experimental: Dtyerent sets of agents have been artificially generated and the performance of different voting rules have been evaluated relative to a simple additive social evahationjiazction. Our experiments suggest that "winner take all"voting schemes outperform voting schemes that are based on proportional representation.

Elections and voting are fundamental to any consensus-based society. They are one of the most critical functions of democracy. There are a number of voting systems adopted all over the world with each of them having its peculiar problems. The manual voting system still appears prominent among the developed and developing nations, but with considerations being given to an electronic alternative with a view to showing most of the short comings. Furthermore, with the increased interest and attention on e-government, e-democracy and e-governance, e-voting initiatives have gained more significance. Thus, many countries are piloting with various e-voting models and systems in order to enable voting from anywhere; also, international organisations are developing standards and recommendations in this area. This paper details a review of the underlying concepts of e-voting and discusses some of the salient issues on the subject. Also, a review of common e-voting models, existing elections schemes and explanation of the usual terminologies associated with e-voting were presented.

There are many challenges facing the applied E-voting in voting in ballots of elections .

Studies in Choice and Welfare, 2009

Information on the rankings and information on the approval of candidates in an election, though related, are fundamentally different-one cannot be derived from the other. Both kinds of information are important in the determination of social choices. We propose a way of combining them in two hybrid voting systems, preference approval voting (PAV) and fallback voting (FV), that satisfy several desirable properties, including monotonicity. Both systems may give different winners from standard ranking and nonranking voting systems. PAV, especially, encourages candidates to take coherent majoritarian positions, but it is more information-demanding than FV. PAV and FV are manipulable through voters' contracting or expanding their approval sets, but a 3-candidate dynamic poll model suggests that Condorcet winners, and candidates ranked first or second by the most voters if there is no Condorcet winner, will be favored, though not necessarily in equilibrium.

2012

In ranked voting systems, each voter selects a subset of candidates and ranks them from most to least preferred. The preference score obtained by each candidate is the weighted sum of votes receives in different places. The main drawback of this approach is that it assumes there is no preference among voters. In this paper we first attempt to analyze and show some drawbacks of this approach. Then, we propose a new method in which voters are classified into several categories based on their priorities that the vote of a higher category may have a greater importance than that of the lower category.

2002

Herausgeber / Editor: Institut für Informationsverarbeitung und Informationswirtschaft Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien · Augasse 2-6 · 1090 Wien Institute of Information Processing and Information Management Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Augasse 2-6 · 1090 Vienna

2008