About Scytl | FAQs|About e-Voting

02) What are the types of electronic voting?

There are two types of electronic voting:
- Remote e-Voting: Casting of votes through any device (PC, mobile phone, PDA, etc.) with an Internet connection.
- Poll-site e-Voting: Casting of votes from touch-screen electronic voting terminals located in polling stations (these terminals are also known as Direct Recording Electronic voting terminals or DREs).

03) - What are the main advantages of electronic voting?

Electronic voting presents numerous advantages over traditional paper-based voting:
- Speed and accuracy in the vote counting process,
- Accessibility for blind and visually impaired voters,
- Flexibility in the design and modification of the ballots,
- Prevention of involuntary voting errors (e.g., "over-voting" and "under-voting" errors), 
- Ease-of-use for voters,
- Support of multiple languages, etc.
- Furthermore, in the case of Internet voting, there is the additional advantage of voters' mobility and convenience which generally leads to higher turnout rates.

04) Is e-voting more expensive than traditional voting?

For large electoral rolls, the cost per voter in e-voting is lower than the cost per voter in traditional voting due to the economies of scale present in e-voting. With electronic voting, as the size of the electoral roll increases, the cost per voter decreases.

05) Where is electronic voting currently being used?

Electronic voting is currently being used by many governments worldwide to carry out binding public elections (e.g., Switzerland, Finland, Brazil, United States, Australia, etc.). Additionally, many private sector organizations also use electronic voting in their internal electoral processes (e.g., labor union elections, shareholders' meetings, professional associations, etc.).

06) Is e-voting secure?

E-voting can be as secure as (or even, in many cases, more secure than) traditional paper-based voting provided that adequate security measures are adopted. Conventional security measures such as firewalls or SSL communications are necessary but not sufficient to guarantee the specific security requirements of e-voting. Besides these conventional security measures, it is also necessary to implement an additional layer of specialized security technology to address the specific risks posed by electronic voting and guarantee critical security requirements such as voters' privacy, vote integrity and voter-verifiability.