Practical Remote Electronic Elections for the UK

Abstract-- The United Kingdom (UK) government has repeatedly expressed a desire to employ a Remote Electronic Voting (REV) system in a general election after 2006. Most existing REV schemes employ some form of cryptography, either to secure transmission of votes, or to model some desirable feature of public elections. This paper outlines the limitations of employing cryptographic REV schemes and proposes an alternative, polsterless scheme, that provides a practical possibility for implementing remote electronic voting in the UK.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: PST
• Authors: Tim Storer, Ishbel Duncan
• Keywords: Most Existing Rev, PST 2004, PST 2008, Remote Electronic Voting, REV Schemes