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Internet Votingin Estonia
Tarvi MartensProject Manager
National Electoral Committee
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E-stonia ?
Population: 1.35M Everyday Internet usage: 54% Internet banking: 86% Mobile penetration: 95% 1000+ Free Internet Access points
PKI penetration: >65% Biggest national eID card roll-out in the
Europe !
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Internet Voting?
In October 2005 Estonia had first-ever pan-national Internet Voting with binding results
~80% of voters had a chance to vote via Internet due to the ID-card
~2% of participated voters used that possibility
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ID-card Project
Started in 1997 Law on personal identification documents:
Feb, 1999 Digital Signature Act: March, 2000 Government accepted plan for
launching ID-card: May, 2000 First card issued: Jan 28, 2002 Dec 2005: 880 000+ cards have been issued
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The Card
“Compulsory” for all residents
Contains: Personal data file Certificate for authentication
(along with e-mail address [email protected])
Certificate for digital signature
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Usage of the ID-card
Major ID-document Replacement of
(transportation) tickets library cards healt insurance card driver documents etc...
Authentication token for all major e-services Digital signature tool
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Internet Voting ?
Not a nuclear physics Just another application for ID-card
...with some special requirements & measures...
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What it takes ?
Procedures
Technology Voters
Politicians & Laws
Token fori-voters
Trust
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Legal foundation 2002
1) voter can use internet for voting
2) voter is authenticated using ID-card
3) voter confirms his selection with digital signature
4) e-voting takes place during absentee voting i.e. days 6.-4. before the Election Day
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Big Fight in 2005
Amendments to the electoral law to reflect the reality
Long discussions in the Parliament The President rejected the amended law
twice National Court decided that the amendments
are correspondant to the Constitutional Law Issue: With Internet voting you can vote repeaditly
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I-voting Main Principles
All major principles of paper-voting are followed I-voting is allowed during period before Voting Day The user uses ID-card
System authenticates the user Voter confirms his choice with digital signature
Repeated e-voting is allowed Only last e-ballot is counted
Manual re-voting is allowed If vote is casted in paper during the Election Day, e-vote(s)
will be revoked
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Voter registration
Missing
All citizen (residents) should register their place of living in central population register
Only voters with registered addresses are eligible
Population register is used
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To vote via Internet voter needs:
An Estonian ID card with valid certificates and PIN-codes
Computer used for voting must have:
A smart card reader A driver for ID card (free to download from page www.id.ee/installer)
A Windows,Linux or MacOSX operating system
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I Website for voting
www.valimised.ee
www.valimised.ee
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II Authentication
Put your card into card reader
Insert PIN 1 for authentication
****
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III Ballot completion
Choose a candidate
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IV Authentication Confirm your choice
Insert PIN 2
*****
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V Confirmation
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Encryptedvote
Digital signature
E-voters
E-votes Results
Private keyPublic key
Envelope scheme
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AuditKey Management
List ofCandidates
List ofVoters
VoteForwarding
ServerVote
StoringServer
VoteCounting
Application
Voterapplication
Auditapplication
log
loglog
Central System
Architecture
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Principles for selecting technology for I-voting
Involve all major influencers and “specialists” Keep it as simple as possible Build it on secure&stable platforms (Debian) No:
Databases (engines) 9GL envirmonments – use C & Python 3rd party libraries too much
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Managing Procedures
All fully documented Crash course for
observers-politicians & auditors All security-critical procedures:
Logged Audited & observed Videotaped
All major IS-specialists involved for network-monitoring 24/7 for dDOS or trojans
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Physical Security
Governmental security hosting Two independant departement guarding the
server room Strict requirements for entering the server
premises Auditor(s), cam-man, operator, police officer
Sealing of hardware
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E-voting frequency by hours
7219 9 5 5 4 19
60
320
932
780
641
554
635
521 540 530 532
707
1083
530 546
416
221
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Some statistics
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Lessons learned
I-voting is not a killer-application. It is just another way for people to vote
People’s attitude and behavior change in decades and generations, not in seconds
I-voting will be as natural as Internet-banking but even more secure
Internet voting is there to stay