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Secret texts and cipherballots: secret suffrage and remote electronic voting

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    Identificador:  TDX:4029
    Autors:  Rodríguez Pérez, Adrián
    Resum:
    One of the key concerns about remote electronic voting is how to preserve secret suffrage. The list of authors who claim that Internet voting is incompatible with the secrecy of the vote is actually quite long. Even if later studies that analysed the actual implementation of remote electronic voting in public political elections had more nuanced findings, concerns about secret suffrage and remote electronic voting remain. Addressing these concerns becomes an inescapable obligation. In this context, our research is quite novel. First and foremost, our starting point is not based on pre-existing legal definitions that are accepted as given. Drawing from the universalist approach to comparative constitutional law, we have understood that the principle of secret suffrage exists in such a way that it transcends the culture bound opinions and conventions of particular political communities. This core understanding has been translated into three standards: individuality, confidentiality, and anonymity. These standards should apply to any voting channel. Second, we have taken a wider approach at the enforcement of this principle. We have showed that secret suffrage may be enforced through law, code, norms, and even the market. Current regulations tend to be constrained because they resort to analogies with paper-based voting channels and fail to acknowledge the specificities of remote electronic voting. In contrast, we have examined the role played by (and the limitations of) asymmetric encryption, anonymization based on mix-nets or homomorphic tallying, and of multiple voting to enforce secret suffrage.
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    Editor: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Data: 2022-09-15, 2022-10-06T10:00:45Z, 2022-10-06T10:00:45Z
    Identificador: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/675606
    Departament/Institut: Departament de Dret Públic, Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
    Idioma: eng
    Autor: Rodríguez Pérez, Adrián
    Director: Barrat Esteve, Jordi
    Font: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)
    Format: application/pdf, application/pdf, 277 p.
  • Paraules clau:

    secret suffrage
    Internet voting
    remote electrònic voting
    voto secreto
    voto por Internet
    voto telemático
    secret del vot
    vot per Internet
    vot telemàtic
    Ciències Socials i Jurídiques
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