Between transparency and confidentiality, is electronic voting viable?
April 27, 2021CNRS
In France, where the first lockdown was imposed immediately following the initial round of the 2020 municipal elections, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought remote electronic voting back to the forefront. Stéphanie Delaune and Véronique Cortier, specialists in cryptographic issues, shed light on the scientific approach to e-voting.
What is electronic voting and how is it used in the world?
Stéphanie Delaune:1 There are two types of electronic voting, either using a dedicated machine or voting online from a personal computer. Although certain issues are common to both, these are two very different solutions. Véronique Cortier and I work primarily on Internet voting. In France, machines were briefly used, but a moratorium in 2008 effectively halted their rollout, except for occasional use in municipal elections.