page_title: DRE-i with enhanced privacy
section_title: Real-world trial
hierarchical_section_title: DRE-i with enhanced privacy / Real-world trial
caption_attribution_description: English: Counts of voter preferences in Gateshead e-voting trial
context_page_description: Direct Recording Electronic with Integrity and Enforced Privacy is an End-to-End verifiable e-voting system without involving any tallying authorities, proposed by Siamak Shahandashti and Feng Hao in 2016. A touch-screen based prototype of the system was successfully trialed in the Gateshead Civic Centre polling station on 2 May 2019 during the 2019 United Kingdom local elections.
context_section_description: A touch-screen based prototype of DRE-ip had been implemented and trialed in a polling station in Gateshead on 2 May 2019 during the 2019 United Kingdom local elections.  During the trial, voters first voted as normal using paper ballots. Upon exiting the polling station, they were invited to participate in a voluntary trial of using a DRE-ip e-voting system for a dummy election. On average, it took each voter only 33 seconds to cast a vote on the DRE-ip system. 
  As part of the trial, voters were asked to compare their voting experiences of using paper ballots and the DRE-ip e-voting system, and indicate which system they would prefer. Among the participating voters, 11 chose "strongly prefer paper", 9 chose "prefer paper", 16 chose "neutral", 23 chose "prefer e-voting", and 32 chose "strongly prefer e-voting".
caption: Counts of voter preferences in the Gateshead e-voting Trial
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