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Complexity of voting manipulation is a prominent topic in computational social choice. In this work, we consider a two-stage voting manipulation scenario. First, a malicious party (an attacker) attempts to manipulate the election outcome in…

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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

While existing literature on electronic voting has extensively addressed verifiability of voting protocols, the vulnerability of electoral rolls in large public elections remains a critical concern. To ensure integrity of electoral rolls,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Prashant Agrawal , Mahabir Prasad Jhanwar , Subodh Vishnu Sharma , Subhashis Banerjee

Several elections run in the last years have been characterized by attempts to manipulate the result of the election through the diffusion of fake or malicious news over social networks. This problem has been recognized as a critical issue…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Vincenzo Auletta , Francesco Carbone , Diodato Ferraioli

The voting systems known as Alternative Vote (AV) and Single Transferable Vote (STV) are extensively used for elections in Australia, possibly more than in any other jurisdiction. Often proposed as superior alternatives to Plurality and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-22 Anthony B. Morton

Electoral control models ways of changing the outcome of an election via such actions as adding/deleting/partitioning either candidates or voters. These actions modify an election's participation structure and aim at either making a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Gábor Erdélyi , Lena Piras , Jörg Rothe

Vote-buying and voter-coercion are the impending threats when deploying remote online voting into large scale elections. With a policy of carrot and stick, it will encourage voters to deviate from honest voting strategy and spoil the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Shufan Zhang , Hu Xiong

The integrity of elections is central to democratic systems. However, a myriad of malicious actors aspire to influence election outcomes for financial or political benefit. A common means to such ends is by manipulating perceptions of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junlin Wu , Andrew Estornell , Lecheng Kong , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Preserving data confidentiality in clouds is a key issue. Secret Sharing, a cryptographic primitive for the distribution of a secret among a group of $n$ participants designed so that only subsets of shareholders of cardinality $0 < t \leq…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Massimo Cafaro , Piergiuseppe Pellè

An election is a process through which citizens in liberal democracies select their governing bodies, usually through voting. For elections to be truly honest, people must be able to vote freely without being subject to coercion; that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Tomer Ashur , Orr Dunkelman , Nimrod Talmon

A privacy-preserving support vector machine (SVM) computing scheme is proposed in this paper. Cloud computing has been spreading in many fields. However, the cloud computing has some serious issues for end users, such as the unauthorized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Takahiro Maekawa , Ayana Kawamura , Takayuki Nakachi , Hitoshi Kiya

A voting center is in charge of collecting and aggregating voter preferences. In an iterative process, the center sends comparison queries to voters, requesting them to submit their preference between two items. Voters might discuss the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Lihi Dery , Svetlana Obraztsova , Zinovi Rabinovich , Meir Kalech

There is growing evidence of systematic attempts to influence democratic elections by controlled and digitally organized dissemination of fake news. This raises the question of the intrinsic robustness of democratic electoral processes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-03 Glory M. Givi , Robin Delabays , Matthieu Jacquemet , Philippe Jacquod

This note provides an introduction to the PPATS Commitment Consistent Encryption (CCE) scheme proposed by Cuvelier, Pereira and Peters and its use in the design of end-to-end verifiable elections with a perfectly private audit trail. These…

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In this paper, we investigate the physical-layer security for a spatial modulation (SM) based indoor visible light communication (VLC) system, which includes multiple transmitters, a legitimate receiver, and a passive eavesdropper (Eve). At…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Jin-Yuan Wang , Hong Ge , Min Lin , Jun-Bo Wang , Jianxin Dai , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Integrity of elections is vital to democratic systems, but it is frequently threatened by malicious actors. The study of algorithmic complexity of the problem of manipulating election outcomes by changing its structural features is known as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Andrew Estornell , Sanmay Das , Edith Elkind , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

The single transferable vote (STV) is a system of preferential proportional voting employed in multi-seat elections. Each ballot cast by a voter is a (potentially partial) ranking over a set of candidates. The margin of victory, or simply…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Michelle Blom , Alexander Ek , Peter J. Stuckey , Vanessa Teague , Damjan Vukcevic

Criteria for a good voting system have been given particularly careful scrutiny in recent years, with general agreement that the core values are fair results, voter power and choice, and local representation. This paper reexamines the basic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-29 Denis Mollison

Today, Internet involves many actors who are making revenues on it (operators, companies, service providers,...). It is therefore important to be able to make fair decisions in this large-scale and highly competitive economical ecosystem.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-01 François Durand , Fabien Mathieu , Ludovic Noirie

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. In this paper, we proposed an Ethereum based eletronic voting (e-voting) protocol, Ques-Chain,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Qixuan Zhang , Bowen Xu , Haotian Jing , Zeyu Zheng