Towards a Standard Architecture for Digital Voting Systems - Defining a Generalized Ballot Schema

TR-2015-189 Author: Dermot Cochran

Towards a Standard Architecture for Digital Voting Systems - Defining a Generalized Ballot Schema

Abstract:

Many electoral jurisdictions have their own distinctive voting schemes. There is no clear consensus about the ideal voting scheme for fair elections. Various systems for electronic and online voting have been either proposed or developed, but these systems tend to be aimed at particular vote counting schemes e.g. plurality. This paper proposes a way to decouple the ballot casting process from the vote counting scheme, using a generalized ballot schema.