Secure and Verifiable Electronic Voting in Practice: the use of vVote in the Victorian State Election
This addresses the problem of secure and accessible voting for blind and remote voters in political elections, representing an incremental deployment of existing verifiable technology.
The paper tackled the implementation of an end-to-end verifiable electronic voting system in the 2014 Victorian State Election, resulting in 1121 votes from blind and remote voters with increased participation and fewer polling places compared to 2010.
The November 2014 Australian State of Victoria election was the first statutory political election worldwide at State level which deployed an end-to-end verifiable electronic voting system in polling places. This was the first time blind voters have been able to cast a fully secret ballot in a verifiable way, and the first time a verifiable voting system has been used to collect remote votes in a political election. The code is open source, and the output from the election is verifiable. The system took 1121 votes from these particular groups, an increase on 2010 and with fewer polling places.