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Voting is a primary democratic activity through which voters select representatives or approve policies. Conventional paper ballot elections have several drawbacks that might compromise the fairness, effectiveness, and accessibility of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Vikas Srivastava , Debasish Roy , Sihem Mesnager , Nibedita Kundu , Sumit Kumar Debnath , Sourav Mukhopadhyay

Within a modern democratic nation, elections play a significant role in the nation's functioning. However, with the existing infrastructure for conducting elections using Electronic Voting Systems (EVMs), many loopholes exist, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Arnab Mukherjee , Souvik Majumdar , Anup Kumar Kolya , Saborni Nandi

Technology has positive impacts on many aspects of our social life. Designing a 24hour globally connected architecture enables ease of access to a variety of resources and services. Furthermore, technology like Internet has been a fertile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Freya Sheer Hardwick , Apostolos Gioulis , Raja Naeem Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis

The paper concerns the protection of the secrecy of ballots, so that the identity of the voters cannot be matched with their vote. To achieve this we use an entangled quantum state to represent the ballots. Each ballot includes the identity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shahar Dolev , Itamar Pitowsky , Boaz Tamir

Numerous institutions, such as companies, universities, or non-governmental organizations, employ Internet voting for remote elections. Since the main purpose of an election is to determine the voters' will, it is fundamentally important to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Johannes Müller , Tomasz Truderung

E-voting systems are a powerful technology for improving democracy. Unfortunately, prior voting systems have single points-of-failure, which may compromise availability, privacy, or integrity of the election results. We present the design,…

This study presents a blockchain-based voting system aimed at enhancing election security, transparency, and integrity. Traditional voting methods face growing risks of tampering, making it crucial to explore innovative solutions. Our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Suniti Chouhan , Gajanand Sharma

Voting forms the most important tool for arriving at a decision in any institution. The changing needs of the civilization currently demands a practical yet secure electronic voting system, but any flaw related to the applied voting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Sandeep Mishra , Kishore Thapliyal , S Krish Rewanth , Abhishek Parakh , Anirban Pathak

In the Netherlands as well as many other countries, the use of electronic voting solutions is a recurrent topic of discussion. While electronic voting certainly has advantages over paper voting, there are also important risks involved. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Wouter Bokslag , Manon de Vries

In traditional access control policies, every access granted and administrative account introduces an additional vulnerability, as a corruption of a high-privilege user can compromise several sensitive files. Privocracy is an access control…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Pedro Camponês , Hugo Pereira , Adrian Persaud , Kevin Gallagher , Santiago Torres-Arias

Elections seem simple---aren't they just counting? But they have a unique, challenging combination of security and privacy requirements. The stakes are high; the context is adversarial; the electorate needs to be convinced that the results…

Online voting enables individuals to participate in elections remotely, offering greater efficiency and accessibility in both governmental and organizational settings. As this method gains popularity, ensuring the security of online voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Anastasiia Belousova , Francesco Marchiori , Mauro Conti

We introduce a quantum voting protocol that uses superposition and entanglement to enable secure, anonymous voting in both centralized and distributed settings. Votes are encoded via phase-flip operations on entangled candidate states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Ali Emre Aydin , Ammar Daskin

A trusted electronic election system requires that all the involved information must go public, that is, it focuses not only on transparency but also privacy issues. In other words, each ballot should be counted anonymously, correctly, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Wei-Jr Lai Ja-Ling Wu

The existing system for determining election results in Australia is, for the most part, secure, accurate and understandable by the average voter. This thesis explores the design of electronic voting systems designed to achieve these same…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Mark Eldridge

We present a system for running auditable and verifiable elections in untrusted environments. Votes are anonymous since the order of candidates on a ballot sheet is random. Tellers see only the position of the candidate. Voters can check…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Kirill A. Korinsky

This paper presents the development of a process automation architecture leveraging Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for secure, transparent and efficient voting systems. The proposed architecture automates the voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Stella N. Arinze , Patrick U. Okafor , Onyekachi M. Egwuagu , Augustine O. Nwajana

Bitcoin, as a decentralized digital currency, has caused extensive research interest. There are many studies based on related protocols on Bitcoin, Bitcoin-based voting protocols also received attention in related literature. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Zijian Bao , Bin Wang , Wenbo Shi

Literature has shown that countries such as Brazil and India have successfully implemented electronic voting systems and other countries are at various piloting stages to address many challenges associated with manual paper based system…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Mourine Achieng , Ephias Ruhode

Quantum information protocols offer significant advantages in properties such as security, anonymity, and privacy for communication and computing tasks. An application where guaranteeing the highest possible security and privacy is critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Nicolas Laurent-Puig , Matilde Baroni , Federico Centrone , Eleni Diamanti