Mobile Voting (M-Voting) for Democracies of the Future
Brandon Nicholson, Raja Naeem Akram, Ryan K. L. Ko · 2014
For most of the world, democratic elections are currently conducted via paper ballots. In some places, paper ballots have been replaced by electronic voting booths. More recently, the idea of remote e-voting has surfaced. That is, using the Internet to vote remotely (such as from your own home) using your computer. The aim of this project is to assess the feasibility of developing a secure mobile application that allows voters to use their smart-phones to vote from wherever they happen to be at the time of the election. The main focus of the project is to make it secure, auditable and trustworthy to voters. The motivation behind shifting to a mobile platform is to increase voter turnout on election day, and make it easier for everyone to cast their vote without having to travel to a polling station.