Go-Ethereum for electronic voting system using clique as proof-of-authority

Current advances in information technology have brought about significant changes, including ways to carry out elections using computer technology known as e-voting. Blockchain underlies the popularity of the digital currency Bitcoin and some other digital money, sparking the start of a new era of Internet use, including electronic voting (e-voting) system. In this work, we proposed designing and implementing an evoting system powered by the Ethereum blockchain. We used real-world data from the Indonesian Election Commission (KPU) with 26 candidates and 15,725 voters from the Jelupang sub-district. The testing and evaluation results using three miners in the blockchain show that the system could commit around 23 transactions per second. All 15,725 votes are committed to the blockchain successfully within 12.75 minutes. The total time required for creating all blockchain accounts is 13.4 hours.

Why Is the Turnout of Young People So Low in Georgian Elections?

The paper analyzes the different factors contributing to the generational gap between younger and older voters in Georgia. It shows that the lack of awareness and interest in political and specifically in electoral processes among young people largely explains this phenomenon. At the same time, several institutional factors, such as electoral campaign salience and specific legislation, also contribute to the low levels of youth participation in elections. Finally, the article proposes several practical steps, including the introduction of online and/or electronic voting and the emphasis of youth-related issues in electoral campaigns, that could help to increase the turnout of young voters in Georgia

Coercion-Resistant Hybrid Voting Systems

Abstract: This paper proposes hybrid voting systems as a solution for the vote buying and voter coercion problem of electronic voting systems. The key idea is to allow voters to revoke and overrule their electronic votes at the polling station. We analyze the potential and pitfalls of such revocation procedures and give concrete recommendations on how to build a hybrid system offering coercion-resistance based on this feature. Our solution may be of interest to governments, which aim at integrating paper-based and electronic voting systems rather than replacing the former by the latter.

Electronic Voting Service Using Block-Chain

Cryptocurrency, and its underlying technologies, has been gaining popularity for transaction management beyond financial transactions. Transaction information is maintained in the block-chain, which can be used to audit the integrity of the transaction. The focus on this paper is the potential availability of block-chain technology of other transactional uses. Block-chain is one of the most stable open ledgers that preserves transaction information, and is difficult to forge. Since the information stored in block-chain is not related to personally identify information, it has the characteristics of anonymity. Also, the block-chain allows for transparent transaction verification since all information in the block-chain is open to the public. These characteristics are the same as the requirements for a voting system. That is, strong robustness, anonymity, and transparency. In this paper, we propose an electronic voting system as an application of block-chain, and describe block-chain based voting at a national level through examples

Partial Verifiability in POLYAS for the GI Elections

We discuss the use of POLYAS, an Internet voting system, in GI elections before 2010, in 2010 and 2011, as well as in future. We briefly describe how the system was extended in 2010 to provide partial verifiability and how the integrity of the GI election result was verified in the 2010 and 2011 elections. Information necessary for partial verifiability has so far only been made available to a small group of researchers. In future it would be ideal to make this, and more information, available to the general public, or to GI members, in order to increase the level of verifiability. We highlight legal considerations accompanying these possibilities, including publishing more details about the election results, the requirement for secret elections and avoiding vote buying, and how to handle complaints. Motivated by legal constraints, we propose further improvements to the POLYAS system. Finally, we generalize our findings to any partially verifiable Internet voting system

Contesting the Independence of Village Head Election Organizers with E-voting

This article describes the intervention of the Sleman local government in village administration, especially in implementing the e-voting village head election. The argument of the Sleman local government is that the e-voting device for the election of the village head is smart, fast, and accurate. The author rejects this argument, because of the involvement of 59 state civil servants as the main technical team. The involvement of ASN in the election of e-voting village heads indicates that the independence of the organizers is lost. The involvement of ASN in the election of lurah has violated Law No. 16/2014, article 32. This research method uses an exploratory qualitative approach combined with governmentality. Primary data collection was done through interviews and observations. Secondary data was collected through mapping journals and books. After the data is collected, validation checks are carried out with the principle of triangulation. Data analysis was carried out by combining theory and field data. The results of the study indicate that there are non-independent ASNs that can create a pseudo-legitimacy for the results of the lurah election

The Challenges of Modern Democracy

Elections, referenda and polls are very important processes and instruments for the smooth operation of a modern democracy. They provide means for transferring power from citizens to their representatives. They can also support the citizens’ trust and confidence in the government and democracy. Until recently election systems have mainly been the focus of attention of politicians and election officials. Nowadays democracy is facing a big problem concerning the low turnout in elections. One of the main reasons for low turnout is growing number of handicapped people and the fact that more people live far from a place of their residency. Fewer and fewer people participate in presidential, parliamentary, regional elections. Fewer and fewer voters even take part in one of the most common forms of direct democracy – referendum. The chance to improve democracy is seen by many in electoral voting, known as e-voting.direct democracy, elections, electronic voting, referendum, modern democracy