A Review of Contemporary E-voting: Requirements, Technology, Systems and Usability

E-voting technology has been developed for more than 30 years. However it is still distance away from serious application. The major challenges are to provide a secure solution and to gain trust from the voters in using it. In this paper we try to present a comprehensive review to e-voting by looking at these challenges. We summarized the vast amount of security requirements named in the literature that allows researcher to design a secure system. We reviewed some of the e-voting systems found in the real world and the literature. We also studied how a e-voting system can be usable by looking at different usability research conducted on e-voting. Summarizes on different cryptographic tools in constructing e-voting systems are also presented in the paper. We hope this paper can served as a good introduction for e-voting researches.