Trust in electoral processes is fundamental for democracies. Further, the identity management of citizen data is crucial, because final tallies cannot be guaranteed without the assurance that every final vote was cast by an eligible voter. In order to establish a basis for a hybrid public verifiability of voting, this work (1) introduces Proverum, an approach combining a private environment based on private permissioned Distributed Ledgers with a public environment based on public Blockchains, (2) describes the application of the Proverum architecture to the Swiss Remote Postal Voting system, mitigating threats present in the current system, and (3) addresses successfully the decentralized identity management in a federalistic state.
@article{arxiv.2008.09841,
title = {Proverum: A Hybrid Public Verifiability and Decentralized Identity Management},
author = {Christian Killer and Lucas Thorbecke and Bruno Rodrigues and Eder Scheid and Muriel Franco and Burkhard Stiller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.09841},
year = {2020}
}