Examine the role of technology in elections

Call for evidence about risks and benefits of introducing blockchain in India's electoral systems

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

@sankarshan

CHANTAL JANINE D'COSTA

CHANTAL JANINE D'COSTA

@chants

Neeta Subbaiah

@neetasubbaiah

Additional reading material for project

Submitted May 18, 2021

List of reading materials (including links) relevant to the project

  • Estonian Internet voting with anonymous credentials İSA SERTKAYA, PETER ROENNE, PETER Y. A. RYAN (link)
  • Blockchain-Based Secured Voting Using Multi-Level Authentication
    Megala G. (Vellore Institute of Technology, India), Prabu Sevugan (Pondicherry University, India) and Venkatesan R. (SRM TRP Engineering College, India) (link)
  • J. V. Cadiz, N. A. M. Mariscal and A. M. Ceniza-Canillo, “An Empirical Analysis Of Using Blockchain Technology In E-Voting Systems,” 2021 1st International Conference in Information and Computing Research (iCORE), 2021, pp. 78-83, doi: 10.1109/iCORE54267.2021.00033.
  • M. Kaur and S. Gupta, “Blockchain Consensus Protocols: State-of-the-art and Future Directions,” 2021 International Conference on Technological Advancements and Innovations (ICTAI), 2021, pp. 446-453, doi: 10.1109/ICTAI53825.2021.9673260.
  • Ch Anwar ul Hassan, Muhammad Hammad, Jawaid Iqbal, Saddam Hussain, Syed Sajid Ullah, Hussain AlSalman, Mogeeb A. A. Mosleh, Muhammad Arif, “A Liquid Democracy Enabled Blockchain-Based Electronic Voting System”, Scientific Programming, vol. 2022, Article ID 1383007, 10 pages, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1383007
  • Ihaab Syed, Michelle Bishop, Sarah Brannon, Erika Hudson, and Kristen Lee.Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (link)
  • Olajumoke Ayandele, Billy Agwanda, Mark Opoku Amankwa, Gershon Dagba & Israel Nyaburi Nyadera (2021) Democracy and Elections amid the COVID 19 Pandemic: The Case of Burundi, African Security, DOI: 10.1080/19392206.2021.2009655 (link)
  • Voting Reform in Mexico (link)
  • Warshofsky, Mia, “The Elderly Voter as Collateral Damage: The Consequences of Voter Restriction on Elderly American Voter Turnout” (2021). Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-. 942. (link)
  • Seifert, A., Charness, N. Digital transformation of everyday lives of older Swiss adults: use of and attitudes toward current and future digital services. Eur J Ageing (2022). (link)
  • Breaking and Fixing Vote Privacy of the Estonian E-Voting Protocol IVXV : Johannes Mueller (link)
  • Loss aversion for the value of voting rights: WTA/WTP ratios for a ballot : Hiroharu Saito (link)
  • Does the Introduction of Online Voting Create Diversity in Representation? : Michael J Wigginton, Daniel Stockemer (link)
  • Not Unique, not Universal: Risk Perception and Acceptance of Online Voting Technology by Russian Citizens : Babayan V., Turobov A.(link)
  • Going from Bad to Worse: From Internet Voting to Blockchain Voting (PDF)
  • New MIT Paper Roundly Rejects Blockchain Voting as Solution to Election Woes (link) (accessed on 20 May 2021)
  • TECHNOLOGY: HOW CAN WE REBUILD TRUST IN VOTING? (link) (accessed on 20 May 2021)
  • TECHNOLOGY: ELECTRONIC VOTING IS NO SILVER BULLET link (accessed on 20 May 2021)
  • Securing the Vote - Protecting American Democracy (2018) (link)
  • Report from the Citizens’s Commission on Elections (Volume II) (link)
  • On balloting methods and tallying methods (link)
  • https://csc.bfu.bg/index.php/CSC/article/download/16/35/ (link)
  • Internet voting in Russia (link)
  • ELECTION INTEGRITY AND TECHNOLOGY:VULNERABILITIES AND SOLUTIONS (link) (accessed on 24 May 2021)
  • Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed people but underrated among informed people (link)(accessed on 26 May 2021)
  • The Future of Voting Technology (link) (accessed on 27 May 2021)
  • End-to-End Verifiable Elections (link) (accessed on 27 May 2021)
  • S. V., A. Sarkar, A. Paul and S. Mishra, “Block Chain Based Cloud Computing Model on EVM Transactions for Secure Voting,” 2019 3rd International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC), 2019, pp. 1075-1079, doi: 10.1109/ICCMC.2019.8819649. (accessed on 29 May 2021)
  • https://www.ecp.gov.pk/ivoting/IVTF Report Executive Version 1.5 Final.pdf (accessed on 31 May 2021)
  • Microsoft Teams Up With Voting Machine Maker to Let Voters Track Ballots (link) (accessed on 07 Jun 2021)
  • IVTF Report, ECP (link) (accessed on 17 June 2021)
  • Pakistan’s Internet Voting Experiment, E-Vote ID 2019 Preprint (link)
  • Fourth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting E-Vote-ID 2019 : 1-4 October 2019, Lochau/Bregenz, Austria : Proceedings (link)
  • Blockchain vs public bulletin board for integrity of elections and electoral rolls: a review (link)
  • An Undocumented Wonder: The Making of the Great Indian Election by S.Y. Quraishi (link)
  • How India Became Democratic Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani (link)

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