In a couple of days, millions of citizens will cast their vote in the European elections - in paper ballots, online or electronically supported. Voter verifiability has the potential to improve confidence in and legitimacy of voting procedures.
Sound elections are built on three essential pillars: privacy - each voter has the right to a free and private vote, security - ballots must be protected from outside interference, and traceability - results must be provable.
For many years, modern, digital technology have been proposed and occasionally trialed or even deployed for electoral processes, with the goal to either carry out elections entirely online (i-voting) or for in-person voting with electronically supported recording or counting (e-voting). ...
