E-voting: usability and acceptance of two-stage voting procedures

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Prosser;Karl Schiessl;Martin Fleischhacker

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna, Vienna;Wiener Zeitung GmbH, Wiedner Gürtel, Vienna;Wiener Zeitung GmbH, Wiedner Gürtel, Vienna

  • Venue:
  • EGOV'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic Government
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Two-stage voting procedures, where registration for voting and actual vote casting are separated, are considered a viable way to ensure voter secrecy and anonymity in casting votes. This, however, comes at a price; a media has to be constructed to bridge these two phases and to ensure that the media cannot be abused. This contribution reports about an e-voting test among Austrians abroad conducted in 2006, which focused on the usability issues of such two-stage procedures.