E-Vote Your Conscience: Perceptions of Coercion and Vote Buying, and the Usability of Fake Credentials in Online Voting
Louis-Henri Merino, Alaleh Azhir, Haoqian Zhang, Simone Colombo, Bernhard Tellenbach, Vero Estrada-Galiñanes
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024 · Day 3 · Continental Ballroom 6
This talk, "E-Vote Your Conscience: Perceptions of Coercion and Vote Buying, and the Usability of Fake Credentials in Online Voting," delves into one of the most persistent and insidious threats to electoral integrity in the era of digital democracy: voter coercion. Presented by Louis-Henri Merino and co-authored with Alaleh Azhir, Haoqian Zhang, Simone Colombo, Bernhard Tellenbach, and Vero Estrada-Galiñanes, the research explores how the convenience promised by online voting systems simultaneously amplifies the risk of malicious actors compelling or intimidating voters. The core of their work focuses on the efficacy and usability of a novel defense mechanism: **fake credentials**.
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This research directly confronts the pervasive threat of voter coercion in online voting, proposing and rigorously evaluating a novel fake credential scheme within the TRIP system. The empirical findings on usability and the dramatic impact of security priming offer a critical, actionable blueprint for building genuinely coercion-resistant electoral systems. This isn't just theory; it's a vital contribution to democratic integrity.