Web proceedings papers

Authors

Panche Ribarski and Ljupcho Antovski

Abstract

This paper discusses user interface and user experience with mobile voting applications. The bad designs of classic paper ballots and the uncharted territory with mobile voting in uenced the Android application following the Material Design speci cations. Building user interface to present a ballot and let the voters ll the ballot on a small screen from a mobile phone is a big challenge. Cast-a-Vote is an application which o ers creation of many election processes with di erent election types. Conforming to the speci cations of the mobile platform, the application was proved to be intuitive and well accepted in the testing phase. The innovative auto-scroll feature allows creation of long ballots in regard to the small screen estate of mobile phones.

Keywords

evoting, mobile voting, android, material design, cast-a-vote