Engineering better voting systems
Bertrand Haas · 2006
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.