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Title:
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A DISTRIBUTED-RESPONSIBILITY ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM |
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Author(s):
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Alan Ward |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-16-X |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Maggie McPherson and Frank Bannister |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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2 |
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Keywords:
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Remote voting, distributed system, redundancy, voter abstention, vote verifiability. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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115 |
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Last Page:
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119 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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In this paper a possible way of building a remote voting system is described, that is based on freely-available
commercial-grade software technologies. Based on remote access through untrusted transmissions on the Internet, it has
the advantages of easy access and speed of use that kiosk-based systems do not, and so may help reduce voter abstention.
At the same time, it is immune to most deficiencies that have been described in the past, including lack of trustworthiness
of the results. Our system uses private/public key pair cryptography and distributes responsibilities among several
independent servers, and enables the vote to be verified both by the voter and by an independent organization. It is also
possible to implement redundancy in the system described. |
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