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Main Authors: Zollinger, Marie-Laure, Rønne, Peter B., Schneider, Steve, Ryan, Peter Y. A., Jamroga, Wojtek
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13240
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author Zollinger, Marie-Laure
Rønne, Peter B.
Schneider, Steve
Ryan, Peter Y. A.
Jamroga, Wojtek
author_facet Zollinger, Marie-Laure
Rønne, Peter B.
Schneider, Steve
Ryan, Peter Y. A.
Jamroga, Wojtek
contents Voting protocols seek to provide integrity and vote privacy in elections. To achieve integrity, procedures have been proposed allowing voters to verify their vote - however this impacts both the user experience and privacy. Especially, vote verification can lead to vote-buying or coercion, if an attacker can obtain documentation, i.e. a receipt, of the cast vote. Thus, some voting protocols go further and provide mechanisms to prevent such receipts. To be effective, this so-called receipt-freeness depends on voters being able to understand and use these mechanisms. In this paper, we present a study with 300 participants which aims to evaluate the voters' experience of the receipt-freeness procedures in the e-voting protocol Selene in the context of vote-buying. This actually constitutes the first user study dealing with vote-buying in e-voting. While the usability and trust factors were rated low in the experiments, we found a positive correlation between trust and understanding.
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spellingShingle Intelligo ut Confido: Understanding, Trust and User Experience in Verifiable Receipt-Free E-Voting (long version)
Zollinger, Marie-Laure
Rønne, Peter B.
Schneider, Steve
Ryan, Peter Y. A.
Jamroga, Wojtek
Cryptography and Security
Human-Computer Interaction
Voting protocols seek to provide integrity and vote privacy in elections. To achieve integrity, procedures have been proposed allowing voters to verify their vote - however this impacts both the user experience and privacy. Especially, vote verification can lead to vote-buying or coercion, if an attacker can obtain documentation, i.e. a receipt, of the cast vote. Thus, some voting protocols go further and provide mechanisms to prevent such receipts. To be effective, this so-called receipt-freeness depends on voters being able to understand and use these mechanisms. In this paper, we present a study with 300 participants which aims to evaluate the voters' experience of the receipt-freeness procedures in the e-voting protocol Selene in the context of vote-buying. This actually constitutes the first user study dealing with vote-buying in e-voting. While the usability and trust factors were rated low in the experiments, we found a positive correlation between trust and understanding.
title Intelligo ut Confido: Understanding, Trust and User Experience in Verifiable Receipt-Free E-Voting (long version)
topic Cryptography and Security
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13240