Complementarity Between STPvote and End-to-End Verifiable Voting (E2E-V)
Complementarity Between STPvote and End-to-End Verifiable Voting (E2E-V) I. Two Approaches: Structural Governance vs. Cryptographic Verification In the field of electronic voting research, End-to-End Verifiable Voting (E2E-V), promoted by institutions such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), represents a cryptographic approach to building trust in election systems. The core objectives of E2E-V include: Allowing voters to verify that their ballot was cast as intended Ensuring that ballots are recorded as cast Enabling public verification that votes are tallied as recorded Using cryptographic techniques such as encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and mixnets The philosophical foundation of E2E-V may be summarized as: Trust established through mathematical proof. By contrast, the Separation of Three Powers Electronic Voting System (STPvote) follows a different architectural path. The core features of STPvote include: Structural separation of regi...