Assessing and comparing the security level of different voting systems is non-trivial as the technical means provided for and societal assumptions made about various systems differ significantly. However, trust assumptions concerning the involved parties are present for all voting systems and can be used as a basis for comparison. This paper discusses eight concrete voting systems with different properties, 12 types of parties involved, and seven general security goals set for voting. The emerging trust relations are assessed for their criticality, and the result is used for comparison of the considered systems.

翻译：评估和比较不同投票系统的安全级别并非易事，因为不同系统所提供的技术手段以及社会对其的假设存在显著差异。然而，所有投票系统都涉及对参与方的信任假设，这些假设可作为比较的基础。本文讨论了八种具有不同特性的具体投票系统、十二种参与方类型以及为投票设定的七项通用安全目标。文章评估了由此产生的信任关系的关键性，并利用评估结果对所考虑的系统进行了比较。