Social identity and trust in internet-based voting adoption

Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Electronic Voting System Security Threats

“…E-democracy, particularly e-voting, has led to broad discussions in practice and literature [2][3][4][5]9]. As the major discussion topics, the security issues and the impact of e-voting on sociopolitical processes are highlighted [6]. Therefore, security issues play a crucial role in the application of e-voting systems.…”

“…Because, legitimacy of democracy depends on the transparency, openness and trustworthiness of elections. From this point of view, e-voting system has commitments in society, and its failure can lead to serious problems related to the confidence of citizens in political processes [6,9].…”

“…To facilitate e-voting and to ensure its more efficient and inexpensive realization, it should be implemented in the following two forms with the use of electronic tools: supervised e-voting -requires a representative of government or electoral authority and/or remote e-voting -does not require an observation by the representative and can be implemented via the Internet voting or mobile devices [3,6,7,9]. In the context of remote e-voting via the Internet, e-voting solutions in the literature are grouped into three major categories: kiosk voting, Internet voting in the voting center, and remote Internet-voting [6,9]. Although different approaches to e-voting are available today, it is believed that mobile voting solutions are estimated to be developed in the near future taking into account the factors urging e-voting.…”

“…Transparency failure: Undoubtedly, ensuring security requirements with information technology, and even using cryptographic techniques and tools promotes transparency in the election process. However, it is uncertain whether the voters will have difficulties to accept and follow safety requirements or not [2,[4][5][6]11,12].…”

“…Different approaches to voting types with the use of ICT are available in scientific sources, and there is a need for the unification of the terms used. Basically, the terms e-voting and Internet-voting are used to express online voting [2][3][4][5][6]. The term e-voting is broadly used, while Internet voting is only one of its forms.…”