The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an increase in the use of internet voting systems in the recent past in order to fulfil the democratic promise of universal and accessible voting. However, these systems were often not up to date with the latest research and therefore offered no way for voters to check whether the vote they cast was counted as it was cast - in other words, they could not determine whether their vote had been manipulated, i.e. changed or deleted, by their device or the voting system itself. Various so-called end-to-end verifiable approaches from research exist to enable this verification and many of these have also been implemented in systems and/or open source libraries. This problem of non-utilisation and the current usable security research on these approaches give rise to the following research questions, which are to be answered as part of the project.

•  How can the awareness and understanding of election organisers for the use of such mechanisms in online elections be increased?
• How can voters' understanding of such mechanisms be increased in order to make an informed decision as to whether they carefully carry out the steps to verify their vote - and what influence does understanding have on trust in the election?