TrustVote: Dispute-resolution mechanisms and systems for Private and Verifiable Voting

TrustVote：用于私人和可验证投票的争议解决机制和系统

• 批准号: EP/Y020529/1
• 负责人: Constantin Dragan
• 金额: $ 47.87万
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY020529%2F1
• 关键词: TrustVote; Dispute; resolution; mechanisms; systems

Running elections is challenging while maintaining election integrity and increased voter confidence. Recent examples have shown that both traditional and online voting systems are not sufficient resilient to achieve this, e.g. 2022 Nigeria election (e.g., voting starting late, accusations of vote tampering, and technical issues with the voting devices), 2020 US presidential election (e.g., unsubstantiated claims and voter mistrust over voting device corruption and doubts over election integrity), 2019 Moscow election (e.g., cryptographic issues), and 2011-2013 Norway elections (e.g., software inaccuracies, voters voting twice - online and in-person).In 2020 the European Commission for democracy through law has highlighted in their CDL-AD(2020)025-e report that dispute-resolution is an essential requirement for successful elections. Their focus has been on providing an overview of the types of disputes that appear in polling stations and the legal mechanisms to handle complaints. The 2022 UK Tory leadership election (that used online voting) and the UK House of Commons divisions raise interesting challenges that have not been previously addressed. This project will build the foundations for real-world dispute-resolution in voting by formalizing disputes, types and timing of dispute evidence, and introducing definitions to accurately model those disputes and their context. Moreover, it will propose novel dispute-resolution mechanisms to completely solve or mitigate those disputes. Research into dispute-resolution has been so underdeveloped, as there are few voting protocols that are known or believed to satisfy dispute-resolution. The project will enhance existing academic protocols (e.g., Helios, Belenios, Selene, JCJ/Civitas) and real-world systems (e.g., ElectionGuard, Swiss Postal Voting) to satisfy dispute-resolution. To ensure the confidence in our analysis, we'll provide where appropriate machine-checked proof guarantees for the novel mechanisms and updated protocols and systems.

在保持选举完整性和增加选民信心的同时，举行选举是具有挑战性的。最近的例子表明，传统和在线投票系统都不足以实现这一点，例如，2022年尼日利亚选举(例如，投票开始较晚、对投票篡改的指控以及投票设备的技术问题)、2020年美国总统选举(例如，对投票设备腐败的未经证实的指控和选民不信任以及对选举完整性的怀疑)、2019年莫斯科选举(例如，密码问题)和2011-2013年挪威选举(例如，软件不准确、2020年，欧洲民主委员会在其CDL-AD(2020)025-e报告中强调，解决争端是成功选举的基本要求。他们的重点一直是概述投票站出现的争端类型和处理投诉的法律机制。2022年英国保守党领导人选举(使用在线投票)和英国下议院的分歧提出了一些有趣的挑战，这些挑战以前从未得到解决。该项目将通过使争议、争议证据的类型和时间正规化，并引入准确模拟这些争议及其背景的定义，为现实世界投票解决争议奠定基础。此外，它还将提出新的争端解决机制，以彻底解决或缓解这些争端。对争议解决的研究一直非常不发达，因为已知或被认为满足争议解决的投票协议很少。该项目将加强现有的学术协议(例如，Helios、Belenios、Selene、JCJ/Civitas)和现实世界的系统(例如，electionGuard、瑞士邮政投票)，以满足争端解决的要求。为了确保我们分析的可信度，我们将在适当的情况下为新的机制和更新的协议和系统提供机器检查的证明保证。