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How can we ensure an elections and registration system that is accessible for all, and maintains integrity, public confidence and trust through minimal potential for fraud?

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DLUHC Areas of research interest GOVUK

Related UKRI funded projects

  • Edinburgh Napier University and Democracy Counts Limited KTP 22_23 R5

    To develop a trusted end to end verification process for citizens and candidates in the electoral registration process which leads to trusted and transparent elections....

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to develop a trusted verification process for electoral registration, ensuring integrity and transparency in elections.

  • TrustVote: Dispute-resolution mechanisms and systems for Private and Verifiable Voting

    Running elections is challenging while maintaining election integrity and increased voter confidence. Recent examples have shown that both traditional and online voting systems are not sufficient resilient to achieve thi...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on dispute-resolution mechanisms and systems for voting, addressing election integrity and voter confidence.

  • Digital Liquid Democracy: Delegative End-to-end Verifiable E-voting

    This project will model, design, analyze, and implement a novel secure, transparent end-to-end verifiable e-voting system that can enable liquid democracy. With the advancement of digital technology, developing a secure ...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to develop a secure and transparent e-voting system that can ensure minimal potential for fraud, which directly addresses the question.

  • Trusted and Transparent Voting Systems

    This project aims to explore applications of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) in domains involving voting and collective decision making. There are many domains in which some form of balloting is required, such as v...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project explores the use of distributed ledger technologies in voting systems, which can contribute to ensuring integrity and transparency in elections, but does not directly address the question of accessibility for all.

  • Electronic Voting

    This project investigates the possibility of a viable solution for anonymous Electronic Voting for citizens using cryptography and smart card technology to protect every stage of the voting process such that it may be ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • The effects of voter ID in the UK

    The UK 2022 Elections Act will introduce mandatory photographic voter ID for in-person voting in England, Scotland, and Wales in general elections, and also in all local elections in England from May 2023. The reform wil...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially relevant as it focuses on the effects of voter ID in the UK, but does not address all aspects of ensuring an accessible and fraud-free elections system.

Similar ARIs from other organisations

Electoral registration and electoral systems How can we ensure a stable electoral system and a democracy that works for all, that is trusted and secure, and with minimal potential for fraud? Cabinet Office, 2019
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