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time to vote, higher usability, higher public confidence in the election process,
reduced voter coercion in online voting (compared to mail voting), robust voter
registration, voter-verified auditing, increased opportunities for voter participa-
tion, reduced costs in the management of elections, secure storage of ballots, and
reduced time for tabulation and auditing are among the practical results that
can be quantified with the framework described in this paper. These and other
beneficial results have been confirmed in the continuous use of this framework
since 2000 with online voting in elections worldwide.
Acknowledgments. This work was supported by Safevote, Inc., which retains
intellectual property rights and copyright. We are thankful for comments and ref-
erences from many collaborators and several online discussion groups. Comments
by L. Bernstein, T. Gerck, V. Neppe, M. Norden, A. Todd and an anonymous
reviewer were particularly helpful in this paper.

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