Security Principles and Challenges in Electronic Voting

Saman Shojae Chaeikar; Alireza Jolfaei; Nazeeruddin Mohammad; Pouya Ostovari

doi:10.1109/EDOCW52865.2021.00030

Security Principles and Challenges in Electronic Voting

Saman Shojae Chaeikar, Alireza Jolfaei, Nazeeruddin Mohammad, Pouya Ostovari

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Abstract

An electronic voting system aims to cast and record votes of the legitimate voters while providing an adequate level of security in the way the votes are cast. These require eliminating the link between the voter and the vote, and at the same time, providing an audit trail for validating the counting and tallying processes. Voting is a critical principle of democracy, and to achieve an accurate vote recording, storing, and reporting, the designed system must be reliable, and tampering and fraud-resistant. Moreover, the architecture of the system must prevent user mistakes, and technical errors and drawbacks. This paper classifies the current critical security issues of the e-voting systems in a structured way, to help the e-voting researchers and designers evaluate their systems against them. To this end, it first reviews the system components, authorized user types, and potential threats, and then discusses the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) issues. The final contribution is introducing and prioritizing the potential security solutions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 25th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, EDOCW 2021
Place of Publication	Australia
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	38-45
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665444880, 9781665444897
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW52865.2021.00030
Publication status	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	25th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, EDOCW 2021 - Gold Coast, Australia Duration: 25 Oct 2021 → 29 Oct 2021

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOCW
ISSN (Print)	1541-7719

Conference

Conference	25th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, EDOCW 2021
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Gold Coast
Period	25/10/21 → 29/10/21

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Funding Information:
This research was in part supported by the PMU cyberse-curity center.

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© 2021 IEEE.

Keywords

Availability
Confidentiality
Electronic voting
Integrity
Security landscape.

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Chaeikar, S. S., Jolfaei, A., Mohammad, N., & Ostovari, P. (2021). Security Principles and Challenges in Electronic Voting. In Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 25th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, EDOCW 2021 (pp. 38-45). (Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOCW). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW52865.2021.00030

Chaeikar, Saman Shojae ; Jolfaei, Alireza ; Mohammad, Nazeeruddin et al. / Security Principles and Challenges in Electronic Voting. Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 25th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, EDOCW 2021. Australia : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. pp. 38-45 (Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOCW).

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Chaeikar, SS, Jolfaei, A, Mohammad, N & Ostovari, P 2021, Security Principles and Challenges in Electronic Voting. in Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 25th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, EDOCW 2021. Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOCW, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Australia, pp. 38-45, 25th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, EDOCW 2021, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 25/10/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW52865.2021.00030

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Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 25th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, EDOCW 2021. Australia : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. p. 38-45 (Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOCW).

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