Remote Voting Schemes: A Comparative Analysis
Jordi Puiggali1
and Victor Morales-Rocha1 
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Scytl Secure Electronic Voting, Tuset 20 1-7, 08006 Barcelona, Spain |
Abstract
Some governments initially introduced postal voting as a way to facilitate overseas and absentee voter’s access to the electoral
process. However, reliability issues that are part of postal voting have helped to introduce new remote voting channels based
on electronic means. In the United States, electronic voting channels based on fax, email or Internet, are or have been used
in binding elections. In this paper we identify which are the current remote voting channels used in the United Sates for
overseas voters binding elections. We also identify which are the main criteria requirements used to evaluate the implementation
of these remote voting channels, and provide a general comparison of the fulfilment of these requirements by these remote
voting channels.
Keywords Remote voting - remote electronic voting - postal voting - Internet voting
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