Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

6 results found in voting accessibility.

Coercion Resistance (Receipt-Freeness, Anti-Coercion)
Coercion resistance is a security property of voting systems that prevents a coercer from verifying how a voter cast their ballot, even if the voter cooperates with the coercer. A related but weaker p…
End-to-End Verifiability (E2E Verifiability, E2EV)
End-to-end verifiability (E2EV) is a property of voting systems that allows voters to independently verify that their ballot was cast as intended, recorded as cast, and counted as recorded — without r…
Homomorphic Encryption (Partially Homomorphic Encryption, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, FHE)
Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption that allows computations to be performed on ciphertext (encrypted data) without first decrypting it, such that the result, when decrypted, matches the re…
Internet Voting (E-Voting, Electronic Voting, i-Voting, Online Voting, Remote Electronic Voting)
Internet voting (also known as e-voting or i-voting) is the casting and counting of votes via internet-connected systems, enabling voters to participate in elections from any location without attendin…
Mix Network (Mixnet, Mix-Net, Re-encryption Mixnet)
A mix network (mixnet) is a cryptographic routing protocol that achieves anonymity by passing encrypted messages through a chain of servers (mix nodes), each of which reorders and re-encrypts the mess…
Universal Verifiability (Public Verifiability)
Universal verifiability is a security property of election systems that enables any third party — not just registered voters — to independently audit and confirm that the published election outcome co…