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Formal Verification of Voting Schemes

Kirsten, Michael ORCID iD icon

Abstract:

Fundamental trust and credibility in democratic systems is commonly established through
the existence and execution of democratic elections. The vote-counting of an election,
usually formalised by a voting scheme, essentially boils down to a mechanism that
aggregates individual preferences of the voters to reach a decision. For this matter, there
are various differing voting schemes in use throughout the world, commonly based on
high expectations and means to ensure a sensible democratic process. However, incidents
such as the ruling by the German federal constitutional court which led to a change of
the German legislation in 2013 manifest that it is difficult for a voting scheme to meet
these legitimate expectations. In fact, there is no general notion of correctness
for a voting scheme and thus no universal mechanism as shown in Kenneth J. Arrow’s
Impossibility Theorem in 1951. As a consequence, designing a real-world voting
scheme without flaws, which still gives significant democratic guarantees, is a difficult
task as a trade-off between desirable properties is non-trivial and error-prone.

The approach in this thesis is based on the idea to tackle this issue by proposing an
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Theoretische Informatik (ITI)
Kompetenzzentrum für angewandte Sicherheitstechnologie (KASTEL)
Publikationstyp Hochschulschrift
Publikationsjahr 2014
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator urn:nbn:de:swb:90-927160
KITopen-ID: 1000092716
Verlag Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Umfang 129 S.
Art der Arbeit Abschlussarbeit - Diplom
Schlagwörter software, software engineering, requirements/specifications, software/program verification

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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000092716
Veröffentlicht am 28.03.2019
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