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EJEG
Volume 7 Issue 4
December 2009
Special issue ECEG 2009
Practical Aspects of DynaVote e-Voting Protocol
Orhan Cetinkaya1 and Mehmet Levent Koc2
1METU, Ankara, Turkey
2Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
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Voting is regarded as one of the most effective methods for individuals to express their opinions on a given topic. Electronic voting (e-Voting) refers to the use of computers or computerised voting equipments to cast ballots in an election. eVoting performed over Internet can be universally accepted in the upcoming years due to the fact that Internet plays a key role in people’s lives. The DynaVote e-Voting protocol claims that it is practical over a network since it does not use complex algorithms and has no physical assumptions such as untappable channels, whereas fulfilling core voting requirements such as privacy, accuracy, uncoercibility and individual verifiability.
Software development requires a considerable amount of time and money. Therefore, in order to utilise all resources, the prototype implementation gains more importance as it gives quick feedback about the practicality of the system. This paper presents a prototype implementation of DynaVote eVoting protocol over the Internet. Since DynaVote relies on Pseudo-Voter Identity (PVID) scheme, which is an unlinkable pseudo identity mechanism, the prototype includes implementation of a PVID scheme component as well. The main outcome of this study is to prove that DynaVote protocol over Internet is practical and applicable in real life and to illustrate that PVID scheme provides unlinkability. This study also contributes some improvements in DynaVote protocol. Furthermore, this paper analyses how the prototype fulfils some electronic voting system requirements such as efficiency, transparency and mobility.
Keywords:
DynaVote, e-Voting, electronic voting, implementation, practically, eVoting requirements
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