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Personalized Voting: The Intersection of Cloud and Mobility

verfasst von : Shaneé Dawkins, Sharon Laskowski

Erschienen in: Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Current research and development being conducted by the international Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure Consortium (GPII) is to create technology for cloud-based accessibility. Using this new technology, users of computer systems can create personal profiles that specify how computer applications should be configured to meet their individual needs. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers have developed a prototype voting support system with enhanced accessibility capabilities based on the cloud-based accessibility work of the GPII, to evaluate the applicability of this new technology in the voting domain. Using this prototype, the Next Generation Voting Platform (NGVP), voters can use a mobile device (e.g. tablet computer) to exchange data with a cloud-based system to download settings in order to configure complex ballot interfaces for marking a blank ballot. The research performed on the NGVP suggests that cloud-based accessibility has the potential to be useful to voters when integrated into mobile ballot-marking systems.

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Fußnoten
1
GPII is a project created by the Switzerland-based Raising the Floor organization. Raising the Floor is made up of over 100 organizations and individuals whose collective goal is “AccessForAll” – accessibility and digital inclusion for each individual’s needs [1].
 
2
Ideally, for mail-in voting, voters would be able to verify their printed completed ballot prior to mailing. However, no such verification system is in place for mail-in voting.
 
3
Alternately, if a voter would like to spoil their completed ballot, they may discard their ballot or ballot representation and complete a new ballot.
 
4
Some accessible voting systems have the functionality for the voter to modify certain characteristics of the system interface as needed; however, these options are not an extensive list of modifiable characteristics.
 
5
For states where mail-in voting is required, or for absentee ballots, steps 5 and 6 are bypassed, and mailing the completed ballot is considered casting for step 8.
 
6
The specific blank ballot downloaded corresponds to the voter’s address. The NGVP prompts the voter to enter this information after interface settings have been set.
 
7
Verification and casting (ballot submission) was conceptualized for the NGVP voting process, but outside of the scope of project implementation.
 
8
This is often the case in traditional polling places, where only one voting machine of the many setup is accessible, and is used by very few (often one) voters.
 
9
One alternative to username and password is to use voter registration information, which would indeed link the voter needs and preferences to what is typically referred to as PII.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Personalized Voting: The Intersection of Cloud and Mobility
verfasst von
Shaneé Dawkins
Sharon Laskowski
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20376-8_44