Selectio Helvetica: A Verifiable Internet Voting System
Eric Dubuis, Stephan Fischli, Rolf Haenni, Uwe Serdült, Oliver Spycher · Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) · 2011
Few governments have introduced electronic voting so far.They are all facing criticism regarding the trustworthiness of their systems.The project "Selectio Helvetica" aims at developing an Internet voting system that can withstand such doubts more easily.It offers full transparency by publishing all the relevant voting data on a public bulletin board.This enables voters to verify the inclusion of their votes and the correctness of the tallying.The underlying cryptographic protocol differs from other protocols since it involves mixing the voters' public signature keys, rather than mixing the votes themselves.This paper introduces the Selectio Helvetica project and the cryptographic protocol in a way that is meant to attract an audience that does not necessarily have much technical background; namely representatives from legislation, jurisdiction, governmental chancelleries and, not least, the electorate itself.