1. The definitive electronic voting
system

2. There are some problems with the way we actually organize elections
THE PROBLEM

3. Paper ballots cause long lines at the
polls

4. The problem
Analog voting sometimes is
inaccurate. Example: US presidential
elections in Florida, 2000
Young people disengagement

5. Digital voting machines do not solve these
problems and they create new ones
• They need secure
environments
• Lack of verifiability: how
can we see where the
vote has gone?
• We have to trust
authorities because
algorithms rely on trust

6. Strong security measures are needed
for Internet voting
• The system relies on some vital points of
failure
• If one of these points fail, the result of the
election is compromised
• Ie.: counting servers

7. Voting is expensive

8. Electronic voting at Internet
THE SOLUTION

9. Advantage of traditional vote systems
vs existing internet voting systems
Internet: dependency on few
Paper ballots: dependency on
points of failure
lots of points of failure

10. Transparency
• Every point of failure makes public at the end
of the Election Day their result
• Anybody can sum the total results
County Obama Votes Romney Votes Others Votes Total
Alameda 78.7% 469,684 18.1% 108,182 3.2% 19,027 596,893
Alpine 59.5% 389 36.1% 236 4.4% 29 654
Amador 38.6% 6,830 58.1% 10,281 3.3% 582 17,693
Butte 46.9% 42,669 48.9% 44,479 4.2% 3,873 91,021
Calaveras 39.7% 8,670 56.5% 12,365 3.8% 827 21,862

11. What is Igloovote
• Use internet to form lots of clusters of voters
• Every cluster corresponds to a point of failure
• Every cluster publishes his partial result
• Anybody can then count the total results

12. Verifiability
• Anybody can check that the votes of his
cluster have been incorporated to the list of
results
• Clusters can be as small as 20 voters, so you
could contact them and verify results (in
extreme cases)
• Anybody can check the results from random
selected clusters and detect significative
statistical differences.

13. Security provided algorithmically
• It’s scientifically possible to achieve at the
same time anonymity and verifiability in
insecure networks without relying on
confidence in trusted authorities.
• But it’s required a lot of computations and
messages transferred between the nodes.
• The problem does not exist if there are only
20 to 50 nodes per cluster.

14. Simplicity
• No new hardware or software needed
• You simply load a page in your browser and
vote
• The algorithm is implemented in less than 100
lines of code and anybody could understand it
if explained properly.

15. More transparency: code is open
source
• Anybody will be able to test the code months
before the election takes place
• Vulnerabilities are revealed before they can
have serious consequences

16. Contact: juanjo@igloovote.com