Jusletter IT

In the field of applied cryptography, for more than 20 years scientists demand that an electronic voting system has to be verifiable before being used in political elections. Since January 2014, a new regulation of the Federal Chancellery concerning e-voting prescribes that in future, systems have to offer verifiability to be able to increase the percentage of electronic votes. There are many technical solutions, but are they feasible? And does verifiability really give the absolute security that is expected from an electronic voting system? (ah)