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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

The digitization of democratic processes promises greater accessibility but presents challenges in terms of security, privacy, and verifiability. Existing electronic voting systems often rely on centralized architectures, creating single…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Michał Jóźwik , Johan Pouwelse

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

Selene is an e-voting protocol that allows voters to directly check their individual vote, in cleartext, in the final tally via a tracker system, while providing good coercion mitigation. This is in contrast to conventional, end-to-end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Peter B. Roenne , Peter Y. A Ryan , Marie-Laure Zollinger

The strongest threat model for voting systems considers coercion resistance: protection against coercers that force voters to modify their votes, or to abstain. Existing remote voting systems either do not provide this property; require an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Wouter Lueks , Iñigo Querejeta-Azurmendi , Carmela Troncoso

Secure E-voting is a challenging protocol. Several approaches based on homomorphic crypto systems, mix-nets blind signatures are proposed in the literature .But most of them need complicated homomorphic encryption which involves complicated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-18 V P Binu , Divya G Nair , A Sreekumar

Casting a ballot from a phone or laptop sounds appealing, but only if voters can be confident their choice remains secret and results cannot be altered in the dark. This paper proposes a hybrid blockchain-based voting model that stores…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yousef Tahboub , Anthony Revilla , Jaydon Lynch , Greg Floyd

Simplified verifiable re-encryption mix-net (SVRM) is revised and a scheme for e-voting systems is developed based on it. The developed scheme enables e-voting systems to satisfy all essential requirements of elections. Namely, they satisfy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Shinsuke Tamura , Hazim A. Haddad , Nazmul Islam , Kazi Md. Rokibul Alam

Paper ballot voting with its fully-reviewable paper-trail is usually considered as more secure than their e-voting counterparts, given the large number of recent incidents. In this work, we explore the security of paper voting and show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 David M. Sommer , Moritz Schneider , Jannik Gut , Srdjan Capkun

Many voter-verifiable, coercion-resistant schemes have been proposed, but even the most carefully designed systems necessarily leak information via the announced result. In corner cases, this may be problematic. For example, if all the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Wojciech Jamroga , Peter B. Roenne , Peter Y. A. Ryan , Philip B. Stark

Voting is a cornerstone of democracy, allowing citizens to express their will and make collective decisions. With advancing technology, online voting is gaining popularity as it enables voting from anywhere with Internet access, eliminating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ivan Homoliak , Tomáš Švondr

The development of an electronic voting system that would replace traditional election procedures is a research topic of great interest for many years. Blockchain technology could provide some guarantees and fulfill strong requirements for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Achilleas Spanos , Ioanna Kantzavelou

In this paper we explore a method to create anonymous services on top of the STORK framework, to be used for electronic surveys or elections. The STORK project aims to realize a single electronic identification and authentication area…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Alessandro Preziosi , Diana Berbecaru

This article analyses three methods of remote voting in an uncontrolled environment: postal voting, internet voting and hybrid voting. It breaks down the voting process into different stages and compares their vulnerabilities considering…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2009-08-10 Chantal Enguehard , Rémi Lehn

Electronic voting consistently fails to supplant conventional paper ballot due to a plethora of security shortcomings. Not only are traditional voting methods mediocre in terms of convenience and interface, they also encompass…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Vitaly Zuevsky

Electronic voting systems must balance public verifiability with voter privacy and coercion resistance. Existing cryptographic protocols typically achieve end-to-end verifiability by revealing vote distributions, relying on trusted clients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Aman Rojjha , Gaurang Tandon , Varul Srivastava , Kannan Srinathan

Homomorphic encryption and blockchain technology are regarded as two significant technologies for improving e-voting systems. In this paper, we suggest a novel e-voting system using homomorphic encryption and blockchain technology that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hyunyeon Kim , Kyung Eun Kim , Soohan Park , Jongsoo Sohn

A novel hybrid design based electronic voting system is proposed, implemented and analyzed. The proposed system uses two voter verification techniques to give better results in comparison to single identification based systems. Finger print…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Shahram Najam Syed , Aamir Zeb Shaikh , Shabbar Naqvi

We present three voting protocols with unconditional privacy and information-theoretic correctness, without assuming any bound on the number of corrupt voters or voting authorities. All protocols have polynomial complexity and require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Anne Broadbent , Alain Tapp

Voting protocols seek to provide integrity and vote privacy in elections. To achieve integrity, procedures have been proposed allowing voters to verify their vote - however this impacts both the user experience and privacy. Especially, vote…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Marie-Laure Zollinger , Peter B. Rønne , Steve Schneider , Peter Y. A. Ryan , Wojtek Jamroga