A preliminary study on a DualVote and Prêt à Voter hybrid system

Damien Mac Namara (1) , John Paul Gibson (2, 3, 4) , Ken Oakley (1)

1 LIT_DIT - Department of Information Technology
2 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4 LOR - Département Logiciels et Réseaux

Two issues which have signifcantly impeded the widespread adoption and acceptance of modern e-voting solutions are the lack of an intuitive user interface and the inability to verify the results. In recent years there have been efforts made in the development of cryptographic verifiability mechanisms which allow the voter to remove an encrypted receipt of their vote from the polling station. The Prêt à Voter system is a recognized example of this approach. This paper introduces a highly usable user interface termed DualVote with the Prêt à Voter backend. We present both a generic and novel eVoting system whose instantiation is relatively simple and achieves a highusability score.

Mots clés: User study; Verifiability; Usability

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Ordinateur et société [cs.CY]; Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Théorie et langage formel [cs.FL]

Damien Mac Namara, John Paul Gibson, Ken Oakley. A preliminary study on a DualVote and Prêt à Voter hybrid system. CeDEM 2012: International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government, May 2012, Krems, Austria. pp.77-89. ⟨hal-03377886⟩