Jusletter IT

Legal Analysis of Privacy Weaknesses in Poll-Site eVoting Systems

  • Authors: Denise Demirel / Maria Henning
  • Category: Scientific Articles
  • Region: Germany
  • Field of law: Data Protection, E-Voting
  • Citation: Denise Demirel / Maria Henning, Legal Analysis of Privacy Weaknesses in Poll-Site eVoting Systems, in: Jusletter IT 12 September 2012
Since the judgement of the Federal Constitutional Court from 2009, the German eVoting community focuses on the public nature of elections. While looking for a transparent electronic voting system, the principle of the secret suffrage may not only take a back seat. Many eVoting systems enable voters to check the essential steps in the election. Nevertheless it needs to be discussed how transparent a voting system can be without violating the principle of the secret suffrage. The purpose of this article is to provide a survey of privacy weaknesses of eVoting systems proposed for poll-site voting and to evaluate them from a legal point of view.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Voter Privacy
  • 2.1. Possible Violation Caused by Hardware Modules
  • 2.2. Possible Violation Caused by Technical Verification
  • 3. Everlasting Privacy
  • 4. Receipt-Freeness
  • 5. Conclusion and Future Work

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