Transparente Demokratie

The author critically discusses the requirements on electronic voting machines, in particular; she deals with the principle of the public nature of elections. Starting point of this research is the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court from March 3rd, 2009. All in all, the work deals with jurisprudential technical design. It confines not only to presenting and evaluating known systems but develops new ideas in order to design constitutionally compatible electronic voting machines. Thereby, possible verification mechanisms with and without cryptography are presented and evaluated. Furthermore, a formulation proposal for a new constitutionally compatible Federal Voting Machine Ordinance is submitted.
The work addresses legal and technical researchers aiming at implementing the verifiability into electronic voting systems required by the principle of the public nature of elections.