Development and Expert Evaluation of an Informative Video Concerning Verifiable Internet Voting

As digitalization advances, online elections are becoming increasingly prevalent. State-of-the-art internet voting systems implement verifiability, which allows to observe the election result to be correct, while safeguarding the secrecy of the election. However, the continued use of unverifiable ‘black-box’ systems suggests that election organizers may be unaware of the security challenges in internet voting and the mitigation strategies that have been developed.

To address this gap, we developed an informative video on the topic for election organizers who are non-experts in internet voting. To ensure that the simplifications made for our target audience do not lead to misunderstandings, 19 German-speaking internet voting experts evaluated the video. Based on their feedback, we consider improvements to the video to enhance its correctness, clarity, and completeness. Further, developing the video and then performing the expert evaluation provided valuable experiences and lessons learned we want to share with similar endeavours trying to simplify complex topics for non-expert audiences.