Poland as a young democracy is supported by extensive experience of mature democratic systems. Poland is still seeking reasonable and effective solutions regarding its electoral system. The right for ...electing the representatives of authority bodies is one of the fundamentals of democracy. This right entitles citizens for active public participation through expressing their support (votes) for candidates, which will respectively represent their voters in certain institutions. Polish electoral law, which regulates the local self-government elections is very controversial. The existing legal rules have been changed many times since 2011. Among the subjects being discussed are electoral campaigns, and candidate registration rules and organization of elections. Frequent changes in the electoral law result in misunderstandings and an unwillingness to participate in elections. Their effect is low voter turnout and a large number of invalid votes. Regardless of the above, it is worth to consider, why the Electoral Code was prepared so chaotically and without any further discussion? Why before the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament and municipalities planned for 2014 it was not possible to be assured about the electoral regulations, which were the subject of numerous changes?
Remote voting through the Internet provides convenience and access to the electorate. At the same time, the security concerns facing any distributed application are magnified when the task is so ...crucial to democratic society. In addition, some of the electoral process loses transparency when it is encapsulated in information technology. In this paper, we examine the public record of three recent elections that used Internet voting. Our specific goal is to identify any potential flaws that security experts would recognize, but that may have not been identified in the rush to implement technology. To do this, we present a multiple exploratory case study, looking at elections conducted between 2006 and 2007 in Estonia, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. These elections were selected as particularly interesting and accessible, and each presents its own technical and security challenges. The electoral environment, technical design, and process for each election are described, including reconstruction of details which are implied but not specified within the source material. We found that all three elections warrant significant concern about voter security, verifiability, and transparency. Usability, our fourth area of focus, seems to have been well-addressed in these elections. While our analysis is based on public documents and previously published reports, therefore lacking access to any confidential materials held by electoral officials, this comparative analysis provides interesting insight and consistent questions across all these cases. Effective review of Internet voting requires an aggressive stance towards identifying potential security and operational flaws, and we encourage the use of third-party reviews with critical technology skills during design, programming, and voting to reduce the changes of failure or fraud that would undermine public confidence.
Conventional voting procedures are being used for the current round of elections. They do not guarantee the voters' complete confidentiality and safety in voting. Additionally, the system does not ...have complete safety because it is possible for anyone to interfere with the counting of the votes and change the outcome of the election. Furthermore, this should be done in an open and honest manner. Online voting is getting increasingly common in today's society. It has the ability to save administrative costs while raising voter turnout. With Block chain technology, the current disruptive technology, voting methods may be made more robust. In this article, we have proposed a solution that uses Block chain technology and addresses all of the problems outlined in the previous sections about college elections. Blockchain technology will not only protect user's privacy and the integrity of their data, but it will also offer greater openness to the electoral process. Students often hold elections on college campuses for a variety of reasons. Blockchain technology can benefit us in that context in several ways, among them increasing transparency. With the help of Blockchain technology, we streamlined an electronic voting system to offer security and authentication while also allowing individuals to vote without having to wait in huge queues
This research takes the case of Public Nomination and Direct Election, currently being rolled out in the People's Republic of China, to explain the function of elections in China. We believe that the ...goal of implementing this election system is to increase the governing ability of the Chinese Communist Party, thus sustaining the survival of the party-state system.
The aim of this paper is to establish and analyse the effects of the application of a proportional election system in the Republic of Croatia particularly in the period from 2000 till today. ...Particular attention is placed on analysis of the effects related to the electorate, D’Hondtov’s formula for calculating votes, effective number of political parties, level of proportionality and election threshold. The author presents certain suggestions for improving elements of the existing election system de lege ferenda which is particularly related to the change in the formula for counting votes and introducing a single electorate in the Republic of Croatia.
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