ABSTRACT
Our world is changing by the day, as traditional forms of business are being replaced, in many cases, by more reliable and faster ways of operating. Our postal system, while still used for many useful applications, has been largely replaced by electronic mail. In voting, the slow and cumbersome task of marking voting papers with the preferred candidate is now being replaced by electronic voting. The traditional systems, though, have been around for hundreds if not thousands of years, and typically use well tried and tested mechanisms. For the most part, for example, we trust a paper-based voting system, even though it is well known that a count of the votes within an election will often produce different results each time that the vote is counted, and then recounted. An electronic method will, on the other hand, most likely have a success rate of 100%.
