Large scale elections by coordinating electoral colleges
Andreu Riera, Joan Borrell, Josep Rifà · 1997
In this paper we propose a truly very large scale voting scheme useful in national and international elections. We offer an implementable solution in which the voting authority is distributed among several voting centres. Each centre acts as an electoral college, carrying out a local scale ballot. The global tally is therefore computed by joining all partial tallies. Our proposal consists on a hierarchical arrangement of the voting centres, strongly based on the use of X.500 Directory Service. Our scheme allows to solve many coordination problems: distribution of voters, coordination of the opening and closing times, management of the electoral roll, distribution of public keys, distribution of partial tallies, and computation of the global tally.