Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Krimmer, Robert
• Volkamer, Melanie
• Beckert, Bernhard
• Küsters, Ralf
• Kulyk, Oksana
• Duenas-Cid, David
• Solvak, Mihkel

Titel

Does Vote Verification Work: Usage and Impact of Confidence Building Technology in Internet Voting

Ist Teil von

• Electronic Voting, 2020, Vol.12455, p.213-228

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The paper examines cast-as-intended verification usage in Estonia by looking at who verifies votes, how they do it and what is the effect on perceptions of election integrity. Using anonymized log and survey data a typical use case of verification is established - younger, Linux using male voting late at night - which suggest verification is used by more cyber risk aware users. Vote verifiers, when re-voting, are also more likely to change the voting environment compared to those re-voters who do not verify their vote, indicating verification is not simply used to check one’s own mistakes in candidate selection. The effects of verifying on confidence in the vote being correctly taken into account are substantial - vote verifiers show a stronger belief in the election integrity. Overall, verification technology seems to be building confidence in the system and being used by the more risk aware voting population.