Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Electronic Voting System Security Threats

Abstract

E-voting system is one of the most important components of e-democracy. Implementation of the e-voting system has various purposes. Its main advantages are the selection of candidates with the appropriate competencies, increased activity and mobility of voters, participation of citizens in abroad and operative proclamation of election results and etc. Nowadays, security risks, threats play a vital role in the implementation and development of e-voting systems. There are many vulnerabilities related to different e-voting systems. In paper analysed the approaches to e-voting systems and the system security threats evaluation. An empirical evaluation of e-voting system security threats based on the multi-criteria evaluation approach (worst-case method and TOPSIS) is reviewed and the security threats are ranked based on appropriate criteria.