No more excuses: Automated synthesis of practical and verifiable vote-counting programs for complex voting schemes

Lyria Bennett Moses, Rajeev Goré, Ron Levy, Dirk Pattinson*, Mukesh Tiwari

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    Abstract

    We argue that electronic vote-counting software can engender broad-based public trust in elections to public office only if they are formally verified against their legal definition and only if they can produce an easily verifiable certificate for the correctness of the count. We then show that both are achievable for the Schulze method of vote-counting, even when the election involves millions of ballots. We argue that our methodology is applicable to any vote-counting scheme that is rigorously specified. Consequently, the current practice of using unverified and unverifiable vote counting software for elections to public office is untenable. In particular, proprietary closed source vote-counting software is simply inexcusable.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationElectronic Voting - 2nd International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2017, Proceedings
    EditorsMelanie Volkamer, Olivier Pereira, Robert Krimmer, Norbert Kersting, Carsten Schurmann, Nadja Braun Binder
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages66-83
    Number of pages18
    ISBN (Print)9783319686868
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017
    Event2nd International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2017 - Bregenz, Austria
    Duration: 24 Oct 201727 Oct 2017

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume10615 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference2nd International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2017
    Country/TerritoryAustria
    CityBregenz
    Period24/10/1727/10/17

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