Long-term Retention in E-Voting - Legal Requirements and Technical Implementation

: Legally binding elections require retention of specified election data such as balloting material. This applies to paper-based as well as electronic elections. However, in Germany legal requirements on retention in e-voting have not been issued so far. Based on the German legal framework for governmental as well as non-governmental paper-based elections, we give recommendations on long-term retention in e-voting, applying our results to a state-of-the-art e-voting scheme. We also review technical measures to meet the security requirements of long-term retention in e-voting.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: EV
• Authors: Rotraud Gitter, Lucie Langer, Susanne Okunick, Zoi Opitz-Talidou
• Keywords: Elections Require Retention, EV 2008, Hardware, Long-term Retention, Non-governmental Paper-based Elections