Requirements and Evaluation Procedures for eVoting

Abstract

Only the most trivial computer system can be expected to meet its requirements if those requirements are not specified. Despite the widespread use of electronic voting (evoting), no requirements catalogue exists that expresses the requirements for evoting systems with enough precision to be checkable. Nor do existing catalogues take evaluation techniques and certification procedures into account. This paper takes the first step towards the development of a new catalogue with corresponding assessment procedures, concentrating on a strict subset of evoting systems