Just Like Paper : a baseline for classifying e-voting usability

Damien Macnamara (1) , John Paul Gibson (2) , Ken Oakley (3)

1 Department of Information Technology [Dundalk] (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
2 LOR - Département Logiciels et Réseaux
3 LIT_DIT - Department of Information Technology (Limerick Institute of Technology)

This work presents a feature-oriented taxonomy for commercial electronic voting machines, which focuses on usability aspects. We analyze the incremental differences in functionality - the features - between voting systems and how that functionality differs from ‘traditional' pen and paper based voting. Based on this analysis, we propose a ‘Just-Like-Paper' (JLP) classifcation method. We validated the JLP classifcation method to the ongoing development of our novel DualVote eVoting system, where its application led to the development of a passive feedback protocol which improved the usability features

Mots clés: ICT; Classification; E-voting; Usability

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Damien Macnamara, John Paul Gibson, Ken Oakley. Just Like Paper : a baseline for classifying e-voting usability. CEDEM 2014 : International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government, May 2014, Krems, Austria. pp.113 - 127. ⟨hal-01263326⟩