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Cornejo, Ramírez Mario Sergei. "An elastic electronic voting system." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2015. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/136271.
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Magíster en Ciencias, Mención ComputaciónEn los últimos años, organizaciones y movimientos sociales han aparecido demandando más participación en políticas públicas. En éstas organizaciones, los miembros demandan ser parte del proceso de toma de decisiones el cual generalmente se realiza mediante iniciativas de voto directo entre los miembros. Además utilizan Internet intensamente como la plataforma principal de comunicación y tienden a confundir sistemas de encuestas con herramientas de votación electrónica. Por otra parte, no es claro que software se debe utilizar, y la debilidad de la mayoría de éstos que tienen con respecto a la robustez (capacidad de computar bien el resultado) más que con la privacidad del voto, además de la facilidad de uso. Como una forma de mejorar la participación, nosotros proponemos un sistema de votación electrónica para ese segmento, que incluye organizaciones sociales, federaciones de estudiantes, colegios, sindicatos, sociedades profesionales, etc. El problema de votación electrónica ha sido ampliamente estudiado por criptógrafos, y hoy en día, existen varios protocolos para resolver problemas específicos a votación electrónica. Nosotros proponemos una solución que toma en consideración esas soluciones existentes combinadas con protocolos de sistemas distribuidos para introducir un sistema de votación electrónica remota elástica. El sistema utiliza la tecnología elastic computing de Amazon que permite escalar en términos de capacidad de computación y alta disponibilidad junto al anonimato de los votantes y la garantía que el voto fue correctamente contado. Concretamente, el sistema está pensado sobre cinco principios: i) Computación elástica, ii) Internet iii) Facilidad de uso, iv) Anonimato y computación verificable, v) Cliente liviano. El objetivo de esta tesis no es solamente resolver el problema abierto descrito anteriormente, sino también establecer una base sólida para plataformas de votación electrónicas a través de Internet. De este modo, nosotros creamos un nuevo sistema de votación electrónica en donde el votante no realiza ninguna computación grande, sino que la trasladamos al servidor, que idealmente está en una plataforma de Cloud Computing como Amazon Web Services. Esta técnica previene ataques de denegación de servicio, robo de identidad y accesos no autorizados, al mismo tiempo preserva la privacidad y la verificabilidad. La plataforma se probó en un caso real, concretamente en una experiencia de votación electrónica en donde los chilenos demandando su derecho a voto en el extranjero, pudieron votar en una elección simbólica. Se presenta la experiencia, los problemas y las soluciones que encontramos utilizando un sistema de identificación simple. Esta proyecto nos permitió estudiar de forma técnica, política y práctica aplicaciones de votación electrónica en América Latina.
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Aggeborn, Linuz. "Voting System, Voter Turnout, Policy Outcome." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-156872.
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In the last decades a number of countries in the developed world have experienced a drop in voter turnout. The public sector is in the end run by politicians who are elected by the people and for that reason it is interesting to study how a variation in turnout will affect public policy outcome. The purpose of this master’s thesis is to investigate the potential causal link that runs between voting system, turnout and policy by empirically testing the Meltzer & Richard’s theory from 1981. I use Swedish and Finnish municipal panel data and apply IV-regression. The constitutional change in 1970 when Sweden changed from having separate election days for the central and the local governments into having one joint election day, is used as instrument for turnout. I find that an increased turnout rate also leads to higher local tax rate indicating that turnout actually has an impact on policy outcome.
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Liburd, Soyini (Soyini Denise) 1980. "An N-version electronic voting system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28441.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-109).
The ballot battles of the 2000 US Presidential Election clearly indicate that existing voting technologies and processes are not sufficient to guarantee that every eligible voter is granted their right to vote and implicitly to have that vote counted, as per the fifteenth, nineteenth, twenty fourth and twenty sixth amendments to the US constitution [1-3]. Developing a voting system that is secure, correct, reliable and trustworthy is a significant challenge to current technology [3, 4]. The Secure Architecture for Voting Electronically (SAVE) demonstrates that N-version programming increases the reliability and security of its systems, and can be used to increase the trustworthiness of systems. Further, SAVE demonstrates how a viable practical approach to voting can be created using N-version programming. SAVE represents a significant contribution to voting technology research because of its design, and also because it demonstrates the benefits of N-version programming and introduces these benefits to the field of voting technology.
by Soyini D. Liburd.
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Scorza, Andrea. "Implementazione di un Voting System su Blockchain." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/16716/.
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In questo documento si andranno ad analizzare i sistemi di voto, dai piu` antichi risalenti all’epoca romana, fino ad i più moderni utilizzati nei vari paesi del mondo ai giorni nostri. Parleremo delle varie tecnologie di voto ed innovazioni che si sono avvicendate nel trascorrere del tempo e di tutte le problematiche relative ad esse. Andremo ad analizzare nel dettaglio i più moderni sistemi di voto elettronici e la loro struttura. Si andrà quindi a definire una nuova e recente tecnologia, la blockchain e si andrà a spiegarne in dettaglio il funzionamento ed i maggiori algoritmi di consenso distribuito relativi ad essa. Infine verra` spiegato il progetto realizzato utilizzando la blockchain. Il progetto consiste in un innovativo sistema di voto elettronico decentralizzato, si andranno ad analizzare i vari componenti del sistema, le proprietà di voto mantenute nel sistema e i vari vantaggi e svantaggi che questa tecnologia se applicata potrebbe portare nel mondo moderno.
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Gong, XiangQi. "Ellection markup language (EML) based tele-voting system." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5841_1350999620.
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Elections are one of the most fundamental activities of a democratic society. As is the case in any other aspect of life, developments in technology have resulted changes in the voting procedure from using the traditional paper-based voting to voting by use of electronic means, or e-voting. E-voting involves using different forms of electronic means likevoting machines, voting via the Internet, telephone, SMS and digital interactive television. This thesis concerns voting by telephone, or televoting, it starts by giving a brief overview and evaluation of various models and technologies that are implemented within such systems. The aspects of televoting that have been investigated are technologies that provide a voice interface to the voter and conduct the voting process, namely the Election Markup Language (EML), Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS).
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Liu, Charles Z. "Performance optimization of a split-value voting system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100631.
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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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As digital technology becomes more powerful and commonplace, the benefits of using computers to conduct elections become more apparent. In today's elections dominated by paper ballots, we cannot be certain that the election result is correct. Many parts of the world are plagued by corrupt election officials and rampant bribery. In this thesis, we review the cryptographic techniques available for designing a secure election system and introduce a system designed around a verifiable mixnet using split-value commitments. The main work done in this thesis is a series of performance optimizations to the existing prototype, greatly improving the real-world viability of the system. Finally, we suggest further work that can be done to improve performance, fault tolerance, and security. The code that accompanies this thesis may be found at https://github.com/ron-rivest/ split-value-voting.
by Charles Z. Liu.
M. Eng.
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Yu, Hong. "Creating Public Trust in Electronic Voting Systems." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-224219.
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There are many positive aspects of electronic voting systems: security, verifiability, convenience, resource conservation, and the like. However, there is still lack of trust for electronic voting systems within the public. One of the reasons could be that the notions involved in electronic voting are challenging to understand for the general public. In this project, we tried to create public trust through an explanation system. An explanation system was made to explain how a modern electronic voting system works. User testing was performed after that, to verify whether this explanation system is able to increase people’s trust in electronic voting system. After analysing the data collected through the user testing, we got promising results to believe that this explanation can be used to create public trust in electronic voting systems.Det finns många positiva aspekter av elektroniska röstningssystem: säkerhet, verifierbarhet, bekvämlighet, resursbesparingar, och liknande. Emellertid så saknas det fortfarande hos allmänheten tillit till elektroniska röstningssystem. Ett av skälen till detta skulle kunna vara att idéerna i samband med elektronisk röstning är utmanande att förstå för allmänheten. I detta projekt har vi försökt att skapa allmän tillit med hjälp av ett förklaringssystem. Ett förklaringssystem tillverkades för att förklara hur ett modernt elektroniskt röstningssystem fungerar. Användartester utfördes därefter, för att verifiera huruvida detta förklaringssystem förmådde öka människors tillit till elektroniska röstningssystem. Efter analys av data insamlade genom användartesterna, fick vi lovande resultat som gav oss anledning att tro att detta slags förklaring kan användas för att skapa allmän tillit till elektroniska röstningssystem.
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Pedroso, Marco Antonio L. "The implementation of a split-value verifiable voting system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100649.
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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-32).
This study provides a proof-of-concept of a newly designed verifiable voting system. The implementation elicits details in the communication and synchronization among servers, unavailable in the original design paper [M. O. Rabin and R. L. Rivest, "Efficient End to End Verifiable Electronic Voting Employing Split Value Representations." in Proc. EVOTE '14, Bregenz, Austria.]. The implemented system was tested on networks of virtual machines in a cluster, and its performance was evaluated based on the computational time and amount of data transferred. The preliminary results simulates elections with up to ten thousand votes. The team will conduct further work to implement the handling of server failures and the secure channels among the servers. This study demonstrates the feasibility of running large elections with more transparent voting systems, by leveraging the split-value representation and simple cryptographic primitives.
by Marco Antonio L. Pedroso.
M. Eng.
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Alsubaiei, Nasser. "Enhancing the Voting System in Saudi Arabia Using Technology." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2014. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/366.
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Gaffar, Afan. "Javanese Voters: A Case Study of Election Under a Hegemonic Party System." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/23627830.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, Graduate School, 1988.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 370-387).
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Kark, Kristof. "A new uniform voting system for elections to the European Parliament?" Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/48286/.
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This thesis looks at the critical issue of electoral system reform relating to elections to the European Parliament. Directly elected since 1979, elections to the European Parliament operate on the basis of highly diverging national systems in the 27 member states, despite a mandate for electoral reform which should lead to a uniform system since the 1950s. The analysis of this thesis centres around the matters of legitimacy and the perceived democratic deficit, as surprisingly, there has been little or no discussion to date on the way the electoral system of elections to the European Parliament promotes or hinders the democratic legitimacy of the European Union. The European Union is conceptualised by the means of three different models, the EU as an international organisation, a supranational technocratic regime, and as a federal order. This thesis addresses the democratic deficit point by constructing an ideal type electoral system where it is currently lacking - in relation to a federal order. This research makes an interdisciplinary contribution by combining a value free positive political science on the one side and a normative legal approach on the other. Whereas a good deal of legal analysis is either explicitly based on a federal model of the European Union or implicitly premised on such an approach, detailed analysis of the implications of federalism for EU level democracy is much less common. Next to historic developments in the field of electoral reform in the European Parliament, the recent Duff Reports as well as the debates around them are analysed. The thesis concludes that an electoral system needs to generate competition between European parties on European matters and presents core elements of a draft European Elections Act, a new uniform voting system for elections to the European Parliament.
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Agafonov, Konstantin. "Elektroninių rinkimų įgyvendinimo galimybės: pasaulinė patirtis ir Lietuvos perspektyva." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20080115_151850-53458.
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Lietuvoje, kaip ir visame pasaulyje šiuo metu, rengiant rinkimus kyla didelė problema, kurios esmė - per mažas rinkėjų aktyvumas dalyvaujant šalyje vykdomuose rinkimuose. Rinkimai vykdomi įprastiniu būdu nepritraukia visų rinkėjų, kadangi piliečiams, turintiems teisę dalyvauti rinkimuose, ne visuomet yra patogu apsilankyti rinkimų apylinkėse dėl laiko stokos ar dėl didelio atstumo iki rinkiminės apylinkės. Vienas iš galimų piliečių dalyvavimo šalies politiniuose procesuose padidinimo metodų gali būti elektroninių balsavimų sistemų kūrimas. Kadangi manoma, kad elektroninės balsavimo sistemos suteiktų papildomų patogumų rinkėjams, dalyvaujantiems balsavimo procesuose, daug pasaulio šalių stengėsi sukurti tokias sistemas ir pradėti naudoti jas šalies rinkiminiuose procesuose.
Šiame darbe yra pateikti elektroninių balsavimo sistemų modelius ir kūrimą sąlygojantys aspektai, o taip pat aptariamos pagrindinės grėsmės, kurios gali įtakoti elektroninių balsavimo sistemų sklandų darbą. Darbe pateikiama medžiaga, kurioje analizuojami elektroninių balsavimo sistemų atakų metodai, o taip pat nurodomos priežastis, dėl kurių šios sistemos gali būti atakuojamos.
Taip pat darbe yra analizuojama elektroninių rinkimų įgyvendinimo patirtis kai kuriuose pasaulio šalyse, o taip pat atlikta Lietuvoje patvirtintos balsavimo internetu rinkimuose ir referendumuose įgyvendinimo analizę ir aptartas galimas Lietuvos elektroninio balsavimo sistemos modelis.
Pagrindinis šio darbo tikslas buvo atlikti... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Around all over the world, at this moment, there is one main problem, while government organizations are organizing general elections or referendums. Problem is that citizens are very apathetic and their participation in elections and referendums are very low. Elections and referendums which are based on traditional election system, using paper ballots, are uncomfortable for a lot of citizens, which have election right, because it’s not very comfortable or possible to reach voting poll’s on an election day. In this case the participation of citizens is very low, because it’s not always possible to visit polling stations when the distance to it is quiet big or citizen have no time to vote. This problem is very urgent in Lithuania to. One of the easiest ways to increase participation of citizens in country political processes is creation of electronical voting systems which can be used to cast citizen vote remotely or not. Because of opinion that e-voting systems will be more convenient for the voters and this will increase voters turnout on elections and referendums, governments of some countries are trying to create and begin to use those systems on their countries general elections and referendums. This paper work is representing the standards and main aspects of creation of the e-voting systems and main threats to electronical voting systems. It discusses about system attack methods and people which are interested in e-voting systems compromising. Also it analyzes the... [to full text]
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Culeac, Petru. "Contradictory electoral behavior and the post-Soviet party-system in Republic of Moldova." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1404353611&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Kim, Myunghee. "System support and ideological congruence between voters and policy positions." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/binghamton/main/.
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Slezák, David. "Bezdrátový hlasovací systém." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-236064.
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This thesis deals with designing and implementation of wireless voting system based on the IQRF technology. The thesis describes mentioned IQRF technology and compares its features with others wireless technologies. It also describes the architecture design and communication protocol of the proposed system. The system consists of device conected to computer which collects data from the voting stations. The core of the thesis is the implementation of this components and implementation of control application for the computer. In conclusion, discussed the achievements and possible improvements.
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Lee, Keum-Chang. "Design of an intrusion detection system based on a fuzzy classification and voting approach." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506587.
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Tuesta, Soldevilla Fernando. "A lethal voting: preferential vote and political parties in Peru." Politai, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/91536.
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The paper analyzes the impact that preferential voting has had on elections and the party system, particularly in the case of Peru. It presents, in the first place, the issue of preferential voting as an element of the electoral system. Then, it continues with the study of the particular case of Peru, in which it indicates its origin, the mechanics it follows, the impact on the Parliament and its evaluation.El artículo busca analizar el impacto que tiene y ha tenido el voto preferencial sobre los procesos electorales y el sistema de partidos, de manera particular en el caso peruano. Presenta en primera instancia, el tema del voto preferencial como elemento del sistema electoral, para continuar con su estudio en el caso particular de Perú en donde señala su origen, la mecánica que sigue, el impacto en el parlamento y su evaluación.
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Albrecht, Pavel. "Bezdrátový hlasovací systém založený na IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-237253.
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In the work, a detail description of the wireless IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocol is presented along with the architectural design of the wireless voting system based on the mentioned technology. The voting system proposed in the work is based on the Freescale's 1321xNSK development kit. The problems related to the design and implementation of the system by means of the kit as well as the problems related to the record-management scheme using the application server, the data backup method and web-export functions including the views are described in the work. At the end of the work, the proposed system is analyzed from several points of view and its main characteristics are summarized.
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Gyimah, Nana Afua Boamah, and Bertrand Asongwe Tita. "Electronic Voting; A Possible Solution for Sub-Saharan Africa? : A focus on the Ghanaian Electoral System." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Informatik, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12573.
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One of the major reasons for political instability in Sub-Saharan Africa originates from the way elections are conducted. Most African countries have quite a handful of electoral malpractices which lead to political instability, civil wars and low economic growth. Electronic voting might be a solution to the election problems and thus bring in a stable political atmosphere which attracts investors. This thesis looks at the prospects and challenges of implementing e-voting in Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa as a solution to the current manual paper-based system and proposes a framework and requirements which can be used as guidelines for its adoption and implementation. The thesis has been conducted by studying literature on electronic voting and Diffusion of Innovations Theory. Furthermore, a case study has been conducted on the Ghanaian electoral process, by conducting interviews with the Danquah Institute of Ghana and through questionnaires to some Ghanaian citizens in both the rural and urban areas of Ghana. The main results from the thesis show that the adoption and subsequent implementation of e-voting in SSA countries, can only be possible if the governments show strong committment and support by securing funds through donor organizations, and providing the necessary IT infrastructure and other resources needed to support the project. Voter education too is an absolute necessity. The adoption of e-voting is mainly based on how the innovation will be diffused and the perceived benefits that will be derived from the investment. Hence, particular attention should be paid to the various communication channels, especially the media, through which messages are passed across to the citizens.
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Aseere, Ali. "A voting-based agent system to support personalised e-learning in a course selection scenario." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/344399/.
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Agent technologies are a promising approach to solving a number of prob-lems concerned with personalised learning due to the inherent autonomy and independence they provide for learners. The objective of this thesis is to find out whether a multiagent system could potentially replace a centralised infra-structure, and to explore the impact of agents taking different strategies. More specifically, our aim is to show how intelligent agent systems can not only form a good framework for distributed e-learning systems, but also how they can be applied in contexts where learners are autonomous and independent. The study also aims to investigate fairness issues and propose a simple framework of fair-ness definitions derived from the relevant literature. To this end, a university course selection scenario has been chosen, where the university has many courses available, but has only sufficient resources to run the most preferred ones. Instead of a centralised system, we consider a de-centralised approach where individuals can make a collective decision about which courses should run by using a multi-agent system based on voting. This voting process consists of multiple rounds, allowing a student agent to accurate-ly represent the student’s preferences, and learn from previous rounds. The ef-fectiveness of this research is demonstrated in three experiments. The first ex-periment explores whether voting procedures and multiagent technology could potentially replace a centralised infrastructure. It also explores the impact of agents using different strategies on overall student satisfaction. The second ex-periment demonstrates the potential for using multiagent systems and voting in settings where students have more complex preferences. The last experiment investigates how intelligent agent-based e-learning systems can ensure fairness between individuals using different strategies. This work shows that agent technology could provide levels of decentrali-sation and personalisation that could be extended to various types of personal and informal learning. It also highlights the importance of the issue of fairness in intelligent and personalised e-learning systems. In this context, it may be said that there is only one potential view of fairness that is practical for these systems, which is the social welfare view that looks to the overall outcome.
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Magliano, Samuel A. "Information Management System for Electronic Voting in support of the Schieffelin Award for Excellence in Teaching." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA397138.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2001.Thesis advisors: Dolk, Daniel R. ; Mar, Dennis R. "September 2001." Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-381). Also available online.
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Masuku, Wiseman Khethokwakhe. "An exploratory study on the planning and design of a future e-voting system for South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7837_1183351619.
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This study focuses on the future role and nature of an e-voting system for a future electoral system in South Africa. The study is of the view that rapid technological advancement and opportunities may contribute to efficient and effective e-voting systems. The study will investigate the international experience where initiatives have been undertaken, particularly in countries like the USA, the Netherlands, India, and Nigeria. Lessons born out of experience have been identified to highlight best practice and potential problems to be avoided in our future elections. As an outcome, the study indirectly seeks ways to increase turnout, particularly amongst the youth, increase voting access (everywhere and anytime), cost effectiveness and availability of quick national election results.
The primary objective of this study has been to develop future options for the planning and design of an e-voting for South Africa. From the outset of this research, the critical issue was not only about e-voting, but rather the planning and designing of an e-voting system. Suffice it to say that the central issue about e-voting was not whether electronic voting should be developed but how and in what ways it should be designed and planned for successful implementation. Interestingly enough, this question has been bothering the IEC as well, particularly pertaining to planning (see 1.5.3). In a nutshell, it is against this background that experts on elections were interviewed. The research investigation found that many problems still existed in South African elections. This research found that both participation and communication are the main pillars in any policy or project.
The study revealed that e-voting would appeal to younger voters and will subsequently boost turnout in SA. In a nutshell, this study found that members of the public and election experts were in favor of telephone voting and SMS, Internet voting, and EVMs. However, it was noted that rural communities would benefit in the long run from e-voting because they are still faced with an infrastructure backlog. Proper planning supported by sound planning principles need to be done to ensure that a e-voting in SA will be made successful and specific recommendations were made in this regard.
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Humphreys, Samuel H. "A comparison of Tennessee elected and appointed school superintendents on selected demographic and school system variables." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54197.
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The purpose of this study was to provide a comparison of Tennessee elected and appointed school superintendents on selected demographic and school system variables.
A questionnaire, consisting of demographic characteristics related to the superintendent and Tennessee school systems, was developed and mailed to all Tennessee superintendents. A total of 137 of 141 superintendents responded, including 79 elected and 58 appointed. More than 96 percent in each category responded.
The t-Test was utilized to determine if there were significant differences in the pupil/teacher ratios, professional salaries, and per pupil expenditures for Tennessee school systems with elected and appointed superintendents. The Mann-Whitney U-Test was used to analyze the differences in scores obtained by pupils from school systems where the superintendent was elected and those obtained by pupils from school systems where the superintendent was appointed for language and mathematics on the eighth grade Basic Skills Test and the ninth grade Proficiency Test. A Chi Square Test was used to analyze the differences in scores on the language and mathematics subtests of the Stanford Achievement Test for twelfth grade pupils who were enrolled in school systems with elected superintendents and twelfth grade pupils who were enrolled in school systems with appointed superintendents. Results for the remaining characteristics were listed in tables for comparison purposes.
It was concluded that appointed superintendents had earned a higher degree, were slightly older, earned a higher salary, had more administrative experience prior to the superintendency, and had a higher preference for the appointment of the superintendent. The school systems with appointed superintendents had lower pupil/teacher ratios, fewer oversized classes, a higher per pupil expenditure, higher professional salaries, more schools accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and recorded higher test scores. Pupils in school systems with appointed superintendents had significantly higher test scores on the language and mathematics sections of the Tennessee Proficiency Test, on the mathematics portion of the Basic Skills Test, and on the twelfth grade Stanford Test.Ed. D.
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Saleemi, Asmara. "Electoral System Effects On Anti-muslim Sentiments In Western Europe." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103386/.
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The purpose of this thesis is to answer the question, why is there a variation in anti-Muslim sentiments across Western Europe? There is existing literature on individual and country-level variable s to explain why prejudice exists, but this research examines the impact of political institutions on anti-Muslim sentiments. Based on new institutionalism theory, electoral systems can shape public attitudes by providing far-right parties a platform to put their concerns on the agenda, and these parties promote anti-Muslim popular sentiments. The results of this analysis support this argument in that the larger the average district magnitude in a country, the greater the anti-Muslim sentiments. The findings also show that an increase in far-right party vote-share also covaries with an increase in anti-Muslim sentiments.
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Middents, Janelle. "UNDERSTANDING THE SPLIT-TICKET VOTER." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3958.
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This thesis will focus on split ticket voting. Split ticket voting refers to an aspect of voting behavior where the individual will cast votes for different political parties for different offices. Through the development of countless theories and utilizing data, political scientists have managed to shed some light as to why an individual may engage in split-ticket voting. However, many of these studies have been too narrow in their focus, for instance, relying on a specific election without taking into account some major variables that provide the foundation for voting behavior. The purpose of this study is to provide scholars with an idea of what characteristics exist most commonly among split-ticket voters compared with straight-ticket voters. What variables work together to cause an individual to engage in split ticket voting? Specifically, this thesis will examine the contribution of variables in explaining ticket splitting. Despite studies of the causes of split-ticket voting, the field is still unclear as to what causes an individual to engage in split-ticket voting. What individual variables cause an individual to engage in ticket splitting?M.S.
Department of Political Science
Sciences
Political Science MA
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Kaltoun, Jan. "Elektronické volby v podmínkách VŠE Praha a ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-81981.
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The focus of this paper is research of electronic voting topics applied to conditions of University of Economics, Prague and the Czech Republic. It therefore consists of not only theoretical research but also of applied work. First goal of this paper was to provide information base both about (especially electronic) voting and significant electronic voting projects realized throughout the world. Consequent second goal was analysis and design of electronic voting solution for chosen elections type at the University of Economics, Prague and proposal of possible process changes in chosen type of elections in the Czech republic should electronic voting be implemented. In it's first part the paper gathers, summarizes and presents information about (especially electronic) voting and chosen electronic voting implementations. The second part then describes chosen types of elections at the University of Economics, Prague and in the Czech Republic and analyzes their processes. In former case the analysis is followed by proposition and evaluation of possible electronic voting implementation variants of chosen elections type and detailed elaboration of the most suitable one. In latter case the paper goes on to describe possible process changes that could arise should electronic voting be implemented for chosen elections type in the Czech Republic. Author's contribution lies in fulfilling the goals of this thesis and performing the necessary activities leading to them. Following the (electronic) voting research the author has provides the reader with information base needed to quickly orientate tehmselves in the field of electronic voting. The author then leverages this information to research and process-analyze chosen types of elections at the University of Economics, Prague and in the Czech Republic, propose changes in mapped processes needed for eventual electronic voting implementation, present alternatives of electronic voting implementation of chosen elections type at the University of Economics, Prague and elaborate on the chosen most suitable one.
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Rapkin, Jonathan D. "Out with the Old? Voting Behavior and Party System Change in Canada and the United States in the 1990's." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278907/.
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This study has attempted to explain the dramatic challenges to the existing party system that occurred in Canada and the United States in the early 1990s. The emergence of new political movements with substantial power at the ballot box has transformed both party systems. The rise of United We Stand America in the United States, and the Reform Party in Canada prompts scholars to ask what forces engender such movements. This study demonstrates that models of economic voting and key models of party system change are both instrumental for understanding the rise of new political movements.
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Škorpil, Jiří. "Online hlasovací systém." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-363824.
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This master's thesis describes design, implementation and testing of online voting system. Based on the research of existing solutions, as well as the identification of their shortcomings for the target user group, the requirements for the new system are specified. This information system is primarily intended to be used for assembly of unit owners, members meeting of building housing cooperative, or meeting of the municipal council, general meeting of shareholders and similar.
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YungShianHsu and 徐永憲. "E-voting system." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75693764265444614207.
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碩士東海大學
數學系
95
In this thesis, we construction of our e-voting system. First, we discuss the security and verification of RSA, DSA, Blind signature, Shamir and Elliptic Curve Secret Sharing Algorithm. Finally, we try to use these technique to construct a security and fast e-voting system with keeping the privacy.
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You, Jinrong, and 游謹榕. "Zero Invalid Ballot Voting System." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61912415334938609407.
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碩士東海大學
數學系
99
In the thesis, we propose a Zero Invalid Ballot Voting System. We gave some basic knowledge of number theory, including Euler Theorem, RSA digital signature, blind signature and secret sharing first; and use them to construct a Zero Invalid Ballot Voting System.
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Sun, Wei-zhe, and 孫偉哲. "Uncoercible Anonymous Electronic Voting System." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82512566952959598131.
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碩士國立中山大學
資訊工程學系研究所
94
Due to convenience and efficiency, electronic voting (e-voting) techniques gradually replace traditional paper-based voting activities in some developed countries. A secure anonymous e-voting system has to satisfy many properties, such as completeness, tally correctness, and uncoercibility, where the uncoercibility property is the most difficult one to be achieved. Since each voter can obtain a voting receipt in an electronic voting system, coercion and bribe (vote-buying and vote-selling are included) become more and more serious in electronic voting environments than traditional paper-based voting environments. Unfortunately, most of the solutions, like receipt-freeness or untappable channels, proposed in the literature, are impractical owing to lack of efficiency or too complicated to be implemented. It will make uncoercible e-voting systems unacceptable by the people. In order to cope with the drawbacks of the previous schemes, this thesis will present a generic idea, which is independent of the underlying cryptographic components, on electronic voting to achieve the uncoercibility property and other requirements. The proposed method is an efficient and quite practical solution to match the current environments of electronic voting.
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Yuan, Wang Te, and 王德源. "voting System and it's applications." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41372118869621813405.
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碩士國立中正大學
資訊工程研究所
89
Because of the popularity of Internet, net users increase more and more. With the Internet environment, it is more easy and convenient for people to do surveying or voting in the Internet. Information transfer in the internet is fast with no distance limited, and so many users like to use the internet, so the Internet is a good choice to hold the surveying or voting, and digital voting or digital survey is popular in the internet. In this thesis, we will describe an implement action of a voting system. Net users can hold a voting or surveying in World Wide Web. And with the convenient interface of WWW, people will hold voting or surveying in the Internet more easily. We will study several important issues for the voting system. And discuss how to check the legal voter, how to prevent vote more than once, and voters how to verify the ballot. We hope that it will be more useful and safe. We also apply the voting system in network examination. Using it, we can design a examination paper for the testing in distance education.
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Liu, Tai-Wai, and 劉泰瑋. "Timestamp-based Secure Electronic Voting System." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33625032943810980872.
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碩士亞洲大學
資訊工程學系碩士班
100
Many countries even enterprises are trying to use electronic voting system because the issue of electronic voting has been discussed in recent years. A complete electronic voting system has some requirements as following. First, there is a perfect voting system to protect the privacy of voters during the voting. Second, the identification and voting content are not known by others. Third, the completeness, verifiability and equity of important essentials have to be maintained. During the electronic voting, the stability of voting system is an important element. The voting system cannot run because it’s not stable. The answers that members of parliament choose are not disclosed during deciding a policy because the purpose of the research is to protect the identification of member of legislative body by using the large-scale electronic voting system of all citizens to transfer to the small-scale legislative voting system. The complexity of several-times identification verification is concerned. The researcher develops the one-time verification of time token and largely decreases the severe loading of server in verification.
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Tseng, Yao-Hsien, and 曾耀賢. "The Electronic Voting System for Few Candidates." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57089724795530944713.
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碩士義守大學
資訊工程學系
91
The concept of electronic voting has been proposed for many years and many of electronic voting schemes have been designed. These electronic voting schemes are based on homomophic encryption, mix-type or blind signatures. In these voting schemes, the intention of each voter is put in the message. The ballot contains the message and its corresponding signature. We can see the goal of the ballot from the message. In this thesis, we present another scheme to show the goal of the ballot. The intentions of voters depend on the choice of verification key. The ballot also contains a random message and its corresponding signature signed by the chosen key. Thus we can see the goal of the ballot by adaptive verification key. To satisfy the above function, we use a RSA oblivious blind signature technique instead of the blind signature schemes. Besides, our scheme is based on an anonymous channel. The proposed scheme not only can satisfy the requirements of secure election: eligibility, privacy, unreusability, completeness, soundness, fairness and verifiability but also can be used in real, large-scale election.
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Wu, Ying-Shiuan, and 吳盈萱. "Java-based Uncoercibility System in Electronic Voting." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56372701501903301677.
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碩士淡江大學
資訊管理學系碩士班
98
Only when the possible coercing behaviors in the developmental electronic voting system can be solved, the system can become practical. We explore the evolution of voting system in this paper. The defect that the large resources are expending in the traditional voting system is the reason that evolves the mechanical voting system and the electronic- counted voting system. However, both systems count only at the tally stage. Farther more an electronic voting system was proposed to provide a state-of-the-art capability through the voting process. However, within this system the voters might be threatened to cast the candidate that the voters don’t want to support by the coercers. Thus, we propose a mechanism to free from the coercers in electronic voting. In the system, we use two pairs of PIN code, PW1 and PW2, to login our electronic voting system. The voter enter the PIN code, PW1, that is used in uncoerced condition to derive a couple of keys, (ei1 ,di1). If the voter has used this private key to sign his vote, the vote is the valid ballot. Whereas, the voter enter the PIN code, PW2, that is used in coerced condition to derive a couple of keys, (ei2 ,di2). And if the voter has used this private key to sign his vote, the vote is the void ballot. The same is, regardless of using which couple of keys, the voter will get the ticket according to his signed vote by the Tally Center. Thus, we can reduce the possibility of coerced, and make the electronic voting system to be more reasonable and safe.
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Chiang, Pei-chi, and 江沛其. "The Myth of Mandatory Cumulative Voting System." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a44rjk.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
法律學研究所
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With regard to the legislation on the cumulative voting system, all countries in the world are not actively relaxing their restraint and control, especially in Europe and the United States. In contrast, Taiwan has consistently adhered to the mandatory cumulative voting system for 40 years and has the potential to explore the value behind this. In this regard, scholars in our country mentioned that although the mandatory cumulative voting system is not the mainstream of the corporate legal system in the world at present, it does not need to follow the trend of the countries in Europe and the United States. Moreover, there is no recessionary backdrop in the United States for the compulsory cumulative voting system. In this regard, this article agrees, but after reviewing and analyzing the causes of the changes in the legal system abroad, we should carefully consider the meaning behind them as a reference for the legal reform in our country. Therefore, based on the analysis of the cost-effectiveness of cumulative voting, we find that the "minority shareholders" that have accumulated their voting system in fact are not the imaginary minority. It is so close to the minority shareholder of Droop Quota. In addition, the cumulative voting system not only sacrifices the operating efficiency of the company, but also overextensively negotiates the cost of negotiations, causing frequent stalemate among the shareholders of all factions. Therefore, this paper tries to find out the reason behind our sticking to the cumulative voting system and finds that the ownership structure difference plays a crucial role. Because in the minority control structure, neither the external control nor the internal control can effectively check and balance, but only intervenes the composition of the board of directors, East Asian scholars hold the position of affirming the mandatory cumulative voting system only through monitoring of other interest representatives with opposite interests. In addition, the article thinks that the phenomenon of high retail investment and high transaction turnover in our country is also the reason why Taiwan sticks to the compulsory cumulative voting system. These two phenomena make it difficult for the controlling shareholder to change the charter, so the legislator has never let it easily company charter autonomy. However, this kind of "paternalistic" thinking of protection has caused Taiwan to plunge into a long-term myth. Only by sacrificing the harmonious operation of enterprises can the interests of minority shareholders be protected. In fact, even the compulsory cumulative vote almost disappeared in the United States faced with the choice between mandatory and permissive cumulative voting, as foreign scholars said, because of the consideration of the modern large-scale companies is not a simple shareholder structure, and minority shareholders to protect the model has changed before the legislator choose to use permissive cumulative voting system. By emphasizing the openness of corporate information and establishing a proper exit mechanism, the United States law has made it more effective and direct that the protection of minority shareholders be more effective than the cumulative voting system. Therefore, the mandatory cumulative voting system has been replaced by other systems. This is exactly what the United States the law behind the meaning of change should be a mirror for our country''s legal system.
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Thakur, Surendra. "System architecture for secure mobile internet voting." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/1393.
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Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Technology: Information Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2015.This thesis focuses on the development of an enhanced innovative secure mobile Internet voting system architecture that offers desirable security requirements to theoretically mitigate some of the intrinsic administrative and logistical challenges of voting, inter alia lack of mobility support for voters, voter inconvenience, election misconduct, and possible voter coercion often associated with the conventional poll-site voting system. Systems in existence have tended to revolve around the need to provide ubiquitous voting, but lack adequate control mechanism to address, in particular, the important security requirement of controlling possible coercion in ubiquitous voting. The research work reported in this thesis improves upon a well-developed Sensus reference architecture. It does so by leveraging the auto-coupling capability of near field communication, as well as the intrinsic merits of global positioning system, voice biometric authentication, and computational intelligence techniques. The leveraging of the combination of these features provides a theoretical mitigation of some of the security challenges inherent in electoral systems previously alluded to. This leveraging also offers a more pragmatic approach to ensuring high level, secure, mobile Internet voting such as voter authentication. Experiments were performed using spectral features for realising the voice biometric based authentication of the system architecture developed. The spectral features investigated include Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), Mel-frequency Discrete Wavelet Coefficients (MFDWC), Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficients (LPCC), and Spectral Histogram of Oriented Gradients (SHOG). The MFCC, MFDWC and LPCC usually have higher dimensions that oftentimes lead to high computational complexity of the pattern matching algorithms in automatic speaker authentication systems. In this study, higher dimensions of each of the features were reduced per speaker using Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) algorithm, while neural network ensemble was utilised as the pattern-matching algorithm. Out of the four spectral features investigated, the LPCC-HOG gave the best statistical results with an R statistic of 0.9257 and Mean Square Error of 0.0361. These compact LPCC-HOG features are highly promising for implementing the authentication module of the secure mobile Internet voting system architecture reported in this thesis.
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Lin, Hong-Dar, and 林宏達. "A Practical Technique for Electronic Voting System." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7a8eja.
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碩士逢甲大學
資訊工程所
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In Taiwan, the different voting events usually hold at the same time. For example, the elections of the head of village and borough were held on the same day in 2002. It implies that each voter belonging to different village or borough has the different candidates to be voted simultaneously. When the different voting events hold at the same time, in order to distinguish each different ballot paper by the voting center, each voting event must use its own public key to identify the candidate. However, how to carefully generating the public key is a complicated process. It implies the cost of the public key generation should be more concerned. The second problem is that in a traditional voting, voters register and get blank ballots in polling booth. But in current electronic voting techniques, it seems difficult to simulate to get blank ballots in polling booth. In this paper, a new scheme combining the techniques of "Similar Partially Blind Signature" and "One-Way Hash Function" is proposed to implement the electronic voting system that will be applied on the Internet. In our scheme, the problem for multi-voting activities working at the same time is solved by only one pair of the public key. In addition, our scheme simulates traditional voting to get blank ballots in virtual polling booth and distribute those to voters. The proposed method provides users a secure and convenient environment to determine which candidate will be voted in the polling time.
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Chan, Yu-Shih, and 詹雨時. "A Global Voting System for Clustering Ensemble." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xyjf4f.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
資訊工程系
106
Clustering is the process of partitioning a dataset into clusters based on the similar-ity between data points. Many clustering methods have been proposed, but different methods usually generate different clustering results because of various properties of these methods. To combine different clustering results into a better and more robust clustering result, clustering ensemble has been proposed. However, some methods re-quire users to specify parameters, and results are generally affected by settings of pa-rameters severely. In this work, a novel clustering ensemble method called Global Voting Clustering Ensemble (GVCE) is proposed, where no parameter is required, in-cluding the number of clusters. There are three satges in GVCE, in the creating stage, fragments will be extracted to further create appropriate candidate clusters. Then, in the voting stage, a voting process is designed to allow candidate clusters to evolve into final candidate clusters containing all data points. Finally, an assigning stage is devised to make sure that each data point is assigned to only one cluster. Experimental results on a variety of real-world datasets verified that our proposed method is better than state-of-the-art clustering ensemble methods.
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Holmes, Danae. "Vote-By-Phone: Usability of an IVR Voting System with Adjustable Audio Speed." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/71967.
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Currently, there is a lack of usable, remote, and accessible voting technologies that must be addressed. An interactive voice response (IVR) system is one potential solution to this problem, due to its capability of remote use and its audio interface, which is very beneficial for those who are visually impaired. An IVR voting system developed by Holmes and Kortum (2011) was fitted with a synthetic voice and an audio speed adjustment feature for increased accessibility and usability, especially for blind voters (Piner, 2011). This system was tested on the three ISO 9241-11 usability metrics (ISO 9241-11, 1998), efficiency (time to complete a ballot), effectiveness (accuracy), and satisfaction (subjective usability) and compared with the usability of other voting methods in an attempt to determine its viability as a voting method. The usage of the accessibility feature was also examined. Results showed that the IVR voting system is comparable with other voting methods in terms of usability. Results also showed a noticeable portion of non-visually impaired participants utilized the accessibility feature.
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Chen, Yuan Shun, and 陳淵順. "An e-voting system based on oblivious signatures." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20979792262510673071.
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碩士國立政治大學
資訊科學學系
99
Electronic voting systems have been widely investigated in recent years since they are very convenient for voters. Many countries have begun to implement electronic voting system to replace the traditional voting system. In order to replace the traditional voting system, an e-voting system must satisfy all the security requirements of those in a traditional voting system. Those security requirements are, firstly, to have a sound mechanism to protect a voter’s privacy, and to ensure that the identity of a voter or the content of a ballot will not be leaked to others. Moreover, it must maintain the integrity, verifiability and fairness during the entire voting process. To keep the system stable during the voting process is also an important factor that must be considered. This thesis is a research on designing a secure electronic voting system. Based on some existing electronic voting systems, we design an improved system to enhance the privacy protection of voters on one hand and to reduce the loading of voters on the other hand. In detail, our scheme is modified from the existing e-voting system of Estonian state, and we proposed an improved e-voting system which uses the oblivious signatures as a building block.
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Deviani, Rini, and Rini Deviani. "RSA Time-Lock Puzzle Authenticated E-voting System." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62848021683625961219.
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碩士亞洲大學
資訊工程學系碩士班
100
The main principle of e-voting is that it must be as similar to regular voting as possible, compliant with election legislation and principles and be at least as secure as regular voting. Therefore, e-voting must be uniform and secret, only eligible persons must be allowed to (e-) vote. Every voter should be able to cast only one vote; a voter must not be able to prove in favor of whom he/she voted. In addition to this the collecting of votes must be secure, reliable and accountable. In the term of Timed-Release Cryptography, e-voting is intended to prevent the early opening of electronically-case votes. It also avoids election fraud which means that all parties involved do not have access to the results until a specific, predefined time in the future. In this thesis, we propose an RSA time-lock puzzle authenticated e-voting system. Authentication, here, means to provide public key based authenticated encryption algorithm that takes sender’s secret key, receiver’s public key and designated time so that the resulting ciphertext can be decrypted only by receiver and only starting with designated time using receiver’s secret key, sender’s public key and some secret that will be disclosed only on designated time. RSA as one of the most famous cryptosystem is used and secure related to several main security issues.
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Lin, Jyan Liang, and 林建良. "An Extended RSA Based Multiauthority Electronic Voting System." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44690455118281909468.
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碩士逢甲大學
電子工程學系
88
Comparing with conventional paper-based voting systems, a secure and sound electronic voting system may be far more efficient and convenient. However, all the previously published electronic voting systems are still unsatisfactory in the sense that cheating by the malicious authority or buying of votes is inevitably allowable in each of these systems. Consequently, they remain impractical for applications in real world environments. In order to solve the two vital problems, in this thesis we first propose an efficient blind multisignature technique. Then, based upon this technique and an extended RSA (ERSA) based group-oriented decryption technique, we develop a multiauthority electronic voting system. It is shown that the developed system can verify the honesty of each authority as well as the correctness of his published tally by simply checking whether each published tally is identical or not. In this way, each individual authority cannot cheat unless all of the authorities conspire together. Further, each individual voter can be convinced that his vote has been taken into account in each authority’s final tally if all published tallies are identical. Accordingly, in the proposed system, there is no need to give a mechanism for the voter to verify whether his vote has been taken into account in each authority’s final tally. Consequently, he is unable to show to anyone else how he votes. This significantly solves the severe problem of vote-buying. To the best of our knowledge, our proposed system is the first one which solves both of the authority-cheating and vote-buying problems simultaneously. In addition, the proposed system satisfies all other security requirements of eligibility, collision free, privacy, fairness, robustness, etc.
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Tsay, Yuh-Maw, and 蔡玉茂. "Developing a Voting System with Electronic Bulletin Board." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70059131194666229175.
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碩士國立交通大學
資訊管理研究所
83
Democracy has reached maturity in modern societies. It becomes interesting and feasible to develop an electronic balloting system in computer networks. In this paper, the author has designed a new protocol for anonymous voting; moreover, a system based on the protocol has been successfully implemented in an environment using WINDOWS NT. The system can gain sococess, under an assumption of an anonymous communication channel.
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LIN, SHIH-KAI, and 林士凱. "Decentralized Electronic Voting System with Anonymity and Verifiability." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d635w3.
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碩士國立高雄科技大學
資訊工程系
107
In recent years, there are many major breakthroughs in information technology, and blockchain is one of them. Before blockchain, most of the network services are based on master-slave architecture, which means the clients need to send their requests to the server and receive the services they want. Because of that, the clients need to trust the server, even if they have doubts about the server, most people still use it because of the convenience of the service. But now with the blockchain, we don’t need a server anymore. Instead, we let all nodes on the network maintain the database, avoiding centralization of power. Furthermore, the data on the blockchain are accessible for everyone. In this paper, we try to combine blockchain with E-voting. Holding elections requires a lot of time and effort, for example, some people don’t live in their constituency, so they need to travel back if they want to vote. And because of the rise of awareness of environmental protection, people want to reduce the usage of papers. Furthermore, the problem of electoral fraud makes people distrust the government. In this paper, we will propose a E-voting system based on blockchain to solve the problems above, and because all information on the blockchain is disclosed, we take a private digital currency called Monero as reference, using ring signature and stealth address presented by Ronald L. Rivest and others. By that, we can protect voter privacy and guarantee the accuracy of vote-counting.
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LIN, CHEN-YI, and 林承毅. "Based on Blockchain Smart Contract Electronic Voting System." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n52jvb.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
資訊管理系
107
Voting is used to being the representative power that voice for people in the democratic system, Whether the voting is safe or not and how to improve the voting convenience has always been the main issue in this research domain, in recent years, information technology is developing rapidly, everyone started thinking about using electronic voting methods instead of traditional voting methods to reduce resource waste and improve convenience, however, due to doubts about safety and trustworthiness several studies have indicated that the electronic voting system may have potential dangers when people voting by the electronic voting system, the study also pointed out that the electronic voting system is manufactured and maintained by humans, it’s inevitable to cause some man-made problems, therefore, it’s very important to propose a safe and trustworthy electronic voting system that can protect the process of voting, block chain technology has been proposed in recent years, the features of decentralized, incorruptible, trackable, encrypted and anonymous makes it become one of the most popular tools for the recent study domain, this study combines block chain technology with an electronic voting system and attempts to establish a secure and trusted electronic voting system.
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Nieh, Jong-Liang, and 聶忠良. "An Anonymous Voting System Applied to Group Decisions." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19152721434637292477.
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碩士國立交通大學
資訊管理研究所
84
In this thesis, we have developed an anonymous voting system that canbe applied to group decisions. People can convene a conference on computernetworks because of the development of information technology. But when theyneed to vote in the conference, they will have the same trouble to expressthemselves as face-to-face meeting. The electronic voting system we havedeveloped can provide an anonymous and verifiable voting enviroment by usingcryptographic instruments. The system can be applied to group decisions easilybecause it uses the conventional voting procedure. Now, people will have a convenient, secure, and reliable voting tool when they take a conference on computer networks.
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Wu, Wen-Bin, and 吳文斌. "A Secure Voting System on a Public Network." Thesis, 1994. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15193347349384454005.
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碩士國立中正大學
資訊工程研究所
82
Due to the rapid progress in computers and communication networks, we may want to hold a secure electronic election on a public network. The election scheme we proposed in this thesis can fully conform the requirements of holding a large scale election. The privacy of the voters can be preserved against the voting center. No one, including the voting center, knows which voting strategy each voter adopts. The voting center can not present a false tally without being caught. Then "Electronic Election " on a public network is possible by employing our proposed scheme.
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Paneru, Sushil. "Blockchain based remote voting system: a performance perspective." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/13204.
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Although cryptography based remote voting protocols have been researched since
1981, most of the previous protocols [9], [5], [13] assume the existence of public bul-
letins or, in other words, a publicly readable, tamper-proof, append-only log. As
blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) offers properties like irreversibil-
ity, transparency and decentralization, it is suitable for realization of public bulletin
board for the voting system. We see a gap in the research of blockchain based voting
systems because there either exists work on just the protocol aspect of the voting
system or the performance aspect of the blockchain. As blockchain is a general
purpose tool, we believe that there lies opportunities for micro-optimizations that
could specifically benefit the voting system. This ushered us to focus our effort on
the performance aspect of integration of voting protocol with blockchain. Hence, in
this thesis, we first introduce a homomorphic encryption based voting protocol that
uses blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric (HLF), as bulletin board. The protocol is de-
signed such that it leverages the transaction processing characteristics of underlying
DLT. We then created an experiment where we designed a smart contract, set up
a blockchain network and exposed the system to 40k concurrent voting transactions
to profile the code of HLF. From the profile data, it was found that execution of
cryptographic operations constitutes most of the transaction processing time. This
led us to benchmark cryptographic libraries for SHA256 and digital signature algo-
rithm and integrate the faster library into HLF for better performance. We also
found that the transaction manager of HLF does not need read-write locks to ensure
transaction isolation in special scenarios, which alleviates the performance drop due to lock contention. Altogether we were able to improve the throughput and latency
of the baseline system by more than 30%. Lastly, we make a comparison between
public and permissioned DLT based remote voting system and discuss the suitability
of permissioned blockchain for the application of voting systems.Graduate
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The election method utilized in Taiwan is traditional paper ballot. It takes a lot of manpower and costs a lot of money to complete the voting and tallying process, and the final election result always announce lately. Because these deficiencies exist in a paper-voting system, dozens of countries have begun researching an e-voting system, and some have already experienced many benefits. The NCKU CNS Lab (Cryptology and Network Security Laboratory) has begun developing Taiwan’s electronic voting system supported by NSC (National Science Council), and this paper’s goal is to analyze the security of the NCKU electronic voting system at the initial design stage. Our analysis approach is “case study”. First, we get basic data by understanding the evolutionary history, the correlation technology, and other countries experiments with e-voting. Next, we get relative data by analyzing the pros and cons of paper voting, internet voting and electronic voting. Then, we began our case study based on this data. We use the ‘KT Problem Solving Model’ as the major tool for the case study, and discuss security vulnerability and potential risks during the initial design stage.Through our security analysis, we can find most security related problems. In the future, we can improve our machine’s design, and make an inspection manual for voting machine’s test based on these potential problems.