Electronic Voting System in Mexican Elections

The use of technology in supporting elections offers many benefits in addition to faster tallying, cost savings, etc. Every country has its own voting system legislation. Particularly in Mexico it is possible to modify the actual voting legislation with a new proposal presented in this paper. To a large extent, our principal contribution is to avoid human errors throughout the voting process (i.e. counting). In addition, our system also issues all the necessary reports at the end of the Election Day. The counting system could decide immediately the outcome of the election. It could avoid excessive costs with empty or void ballots. In addition it could have all the necessary ballots at temporary booths (for voters who are not in their home town). Our proposal is a public-network DRE, using a client-server protocol. We propose to encrypt every vote sent using an RSA scheme in a system with a public-key infrastructure.