Our election experts have been busy! Let’s take a look at some of their most recent online voting blog posts:
Corporate Online Voting Blog
On our corporate blog, Jake Mahr (PhD) discussed how universities and other higher education institutions could leverage Scytl’s Invote Pro online voting solution to conduct secure and efficient election processes. Elections and voting events often require significant resources and complex logistics. Institutions might have an entire team of people who dedicate days of work to prepare for a single voting event, and with multiple elections for different groups each year, this time adds up.
With Invote Pro, the planning process is streamlined for efficiency, meaning every election is less time-consuming and requires fewer personnel resources. When voting comes to a close, results are also automatically tabulated and quickly made ready for publication, saving not only time, but mental strain as well!
EDGE: Elections in the Digital Era
Over on our EDGE blog, Cryptography Research Tamara Finogina (PhD) had an active month! She first offered an overview of the current state of online voting in Switzerland.
Switzerland is a unique country in the world of voting for many reasons. First, unlike any other country where voting happens rarely (for example, once every 4 years), Switzerland holds elections 4 to 5 times a year. Second, most citizens vote remotely — according to the Federal Chancellery, about 95% of all votes are cast via the postal channel. Third, in general, the population is widely in favor of online voting.
This year, Switzerland started trials again in specific cantons. Find out more in the article!
Tamara also wrote a basic introduction to elliptic curve cryptography, explaining the mathematics they rely on why they are useful for encrypting important data. She notes that one of their main benefits is speed:
We use cryptography daily without even realizing it: connecting to websites, opening our cloud, logging into an app, etc. We don’t notice cryptography running in the background because it’s running fast. If we had to wait a few minutes every time we wanted to send a message, we would be aware of and incredibly irritated at how slow everything is.
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