Electronic voting systems security requirements engineering

Voting is a critical process for democracy all over the world. Manual voting systems have been exercised for many years resulting in increased accumulated experience in solving voting problems. With electronic voting systems, security problems could be costly and disastrous if suitable, necessary and effective precautions are not enforced during the early stages of system engineering. In this paper, security requirements for voting systems are investigated, analyzed, and categorized to allow incorporating them into the software requirements engineering process. A classification based on the severity of the security requirement is also introduced.