Electronic Voting
The communication between the government and the citizen when voting
is concerned is one of the most complex cases for the SIRB. It requires
storage of information which may not be released during and after
a normal election in order to facilitate a recount.
It is therefore strongly recommended to build a special instance
of the SIRB for the particular vote. This V-SIRB (Voting-SIRB) is to be managed
by SIRB speciallists and lawyers representing the voting authority
(not the government or individual political or regional authorities)
and the data stored during the voting process needs to be publicly
destroyed if the voting results are definitely accepted by all parties involved.
During the vote the V-SIRB
- will check if a particular person is allowed to vote and/or
has allready done so. This is confidential information. "Not
voting is also voting", however, this information needs to
be stored for double checks with the votes that are performed
using postal services.
- will anonimize the persons vote and add the result to the database
for statistical analysis
- continuously check the results database and cross reference
it with its participants database
picture
- The voting committee provide one or more data repository which
contains the identity references of all persons allowed to vote
- The citizen uses one of many devices to contact the V-SIRB
- The citizen presents his encrypted digital identity to the V-SIRB
which check if this identity is valid for voting. Iif a vote (postal)
for this identity has been received, the identity is not allowed
to vote. Multiple attempts are registered to prevent abuse
- The V-Sirb check with the voting committee data repositories.
If the identity is allowed to vote the device can be used to vote.
- The citizen makes a choice and creates the vote, which gets
encrypted for the V-SIRB thus allowing the V-SIRB to tally user
and vote
- The vote being valid (double check by the V-SIRB) gets stripped
of the identifying signature and is forwarded by the V-SIRB to
the voting database. A hash of the digital signature of the citizen
is added to the" legal voters database" for later reference
After the formal close of the voting the "legal voters datadase"
is publicly destroyed
After the formal close of the voting the "voting committee
data repositories" are publicly destroyed
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