E-Voting: Usability and Acceptance of Two-Stage Voting Procedures

摘要

Two-stage voting procedures, where registration for voting and actual vote casting are separated, are considered a viable way to ensure voter secrecy and anonymity in casting votes. This, however, comes at a price; a media has to be constructed to bridge these two phases and to ensure that the media cannot be abused. This contribution reports about an e-voting test among Austrians abroad conducted in 2006, which focused on the usability issues of such two-stage procedures.