Two Variations to the mCESG Pollsterless E-Voting Scheme

— Over the past several years, the UK Government has piloted several new voting technologies during local authority elections. The mCESG pollsterless Remote Electronic Voting (REV) system, which was designed with the UK electoral context in mind, is described in detail in [1]. Here, we describe two variations to the mCESG scheme which (a) improve its suitability for the variety of electoral systems in use in the UK and (b) provide a means for resisting coercion attacks to which the original scheme was vulnerable. I. THE UK ELECTORAL CONTEXT Elections in the United Kingdom are governed by a variety of Acts of Parliament, most notably the Representation of the People Act 1983 [2], although this has been amended several times [3], [4]. Prior to 1999, elections on the mainland were conducted via a simple plurality electoral system, generally to single member wards and constituencies.1 However, following the passage of devolution legislation [5] and changes to the way in which members of ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: COMPSAC
• Authors: Tim Storer, Ishbel Duncan
• Keywords: COMPSAC 2005, Electoral System, Local Authority Elections, Software Engineering, Uk Electoral Context