An application of electronic voting based on Mercuri's Model

The aim of this work to introduce and analyse Mercuri Model which is one of the most reliable and secure IP based electronic election systems. The model simply assumes that it is almost impossible to achieve trustable and safe an electronic election. Therefore the model suggests providing and saving a paper output of vote along with electronic and digital devices used at all the steps of election process. Considering practicality and applicability of the model, the rector election of a university is taken as the sample case to analyse. Additionally, the worldwide examples of electronic election applications are briefly introduced. A short history of electronic election is also given.