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Participatory budgeting is a democratic innovation that empowers citizens to propose and vote on public investment projects. While researchers in computer science focused on improving the voting phase of this process, in this work we aim to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Juan Zambrano , Clément Contet , Jairo Gudiño-Rosero , Felipe Garrido-Lucero , Umberto Grandi , César Hidalgo

Identity verification is the process of confirming an individual's claimed identity, which is essential in sectors like finance, healthcare, and online services to ensure security and prevent fraud. However, current password/PIN-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yao Ma , Wen Yu Kon , Jefferson Chu , Kevin Han Yong Loh , Kaushik Chakraborty , Charles Lim

Process attestation verifies human authorship by collecting behavioral biometric evidence, including keystroke dynamics, typing patterns, and editing behavior, during the creative process. However, the very data needed to prove authenticity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 David Condrey

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

Privacy concerns in machine learning systems have grown significantly with the increasing reliance on sensitive user data for training large-scale models. This paper introduces a novel framework combining Probably Approximately Correct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Guilhem Repetto , Nojan Sheybani , Gabrielle De Micheli , Farinaz Koushanfar

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

In the context of computational social choice, we study voting methods that assign a set of winners to each profile of voter preferences. A voting method satisfies the property of positive involvement (PI) if for any election in which a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Wesley H. Holliday , Eric Pacuit

Since the 1970s there has been a large number of countries that combine formal democratic institutions with authoritarian practices. Although in such countries the ruling elites may receive considerable voter support they often employ…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-27 Raúl Jiménez , Manuel Hidalgo , Peter Klimek

We describe quantum protocols for voting and surveying. A key feature of our schemes is the use of entangled states to ensure that the votes are anonymous and to allow the votes to be tallied. The entanglement is distributed over separated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 J. A. Vaccaro , Joseph Spring , Anthony Chefles

Code voting was introduced by Chaum as a solution for using a possibly infected-by-malware device to cast a vote in an electronic voting application. Chaum's work on code voting assumed voting codes are physically delivered to voters using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Yvo Desmedt , Stelios Erotokritou

Assessing and comparing the security level of different voting systems is non-trivial as the technical means provided for and societal assumptions made about various systems differ significantly. However, trust assumptions concerning the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Kristjan Krips , Nikita Snetkov , Jelizaveta Vakarjuk , Jan Willemson

Since 2004, different research was handling the challenges in the centralized voting systems, e-voting protocols and recently the decentralized voting. So electronic voting puts forward some difficulties regarding the voter anonymity, the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Nazim Faour

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

While online services emerge in all areas of life, the voting procedure in many democracies remains paper-based as the security of current online voting technology is highly disputed. We address the issue of trustworthy online voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Robert Riemann , Stéphane Grumbach

Quantum communication protocols seek to leverage the unique properties of quantum systems for coordination or communication tasks, usually with guarantees of security or anonymity that exceed what is possible classically. One promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Francis Marcellino , Mingsong Wu , Rob Thew

Voting is a very important issue which can be beneficial in term of choosing the right leader in an election. A good leader can bring prosperity to a country and also can lead the country in the right direction every time. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Kazi Sadia , Md. Masuduzzaman , Rajib Kumar Paul , Anik Islam

In traditional, one-vote-per-person voting systems, privacy equates with ballot secrecy: voting tallies are published, but individual voters' choices are concealed. Voting systems that weight votes in proportion to token holdings, though,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Samuel Breckenridge , Dani Vilardell , Andrés Fábrega , Amy Zhao , Patrick McCorry , Rafael Solari , Ari Juels

The Web Bulletin Board (WBB) is a key component of verifiable election systems. It is used in the context of election verification to publish evidence of voting and tallying that voters and officials can check, and where challenges can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Chris Culnane , Steve Schneider

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

In the context of cloud computing, services are held on cloud servers, where the clients send their data to the server and obtain the results returned by server. However, the computation, data and results are prone to tampering due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yancheng Zhang , Mengxin Zheng , Xun Chen , Jingtong Hu , Weidong Shi , Lei Ju , Yan Solihin , Qian Lou