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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

In a world where elections touch every aspect of society, the need for secure voting is paramount. Traditional safeguards, based on classical cryptography, rely on complex math problems like factoring large numbers. However, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Saiyam Sakhuja , S. Balakrishnan

Quantum voting protocols aim to offer ballot secrecy and publicly verifiable tallies using physical guarantees from quantum mechanics, rather than relying solely on computational hardness. This article surveys whether such quantum voting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Nitin Jha , Abhishek Parakh

Anonymous voting is a voting method of hiding the link between a vote and a voter, the context of which ranges from governmental elections to decision making in small groups like councils or companies. In this paper, we propose a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Qingle Wang , Chaohua Yu , Fei Gao , Haoyu Qi , Qiaoyan Wen

Electronic voting is a very useful but challenging internet-based protocol that despite many theoretical approaches and various implementations with different degrees of success, remains a contentious topic due to issues in reliability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Federico Centrone , Eleni Diamanti , Iordanis Kerenidis

We propose a new protocol for quantum anonymous voting having serious advantages over the existing protocols: it protects both the voters from a curious tallyman and all the participants from a dishonest voter in unconditional way. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Dmitri Horoshko , Sergei Kilin

We propose a simple quantum voting machine using microwave photon qubit encoding, based on a setup comprising multiple microwave cavities and a coupled superconducting flux qutrit. This approach primarily relies on a multi-control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Yu Zhang , Chuiping Yang , Qiping Su , Yihao Kang , Wen Zheng , Shaoxiong Li , Yang Yu

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

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

Ensuring security and integrity of elections constitutes an important challenge with wide-ranging societal implications. Classically, security guarantees can be ensured based on computational complexity, which may be challenged by quantum…

Electronic voting systems face growing risks from cyberattacks and data breaches, which are expected to intensify with the advent of quantum computing. To address these challenges, we introduce a quantum-secure voting framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Taha M. Mahmoud , Naima Kaabouch

Studying the computational complexity and designing fast algorithms for determining winners under voting rules are classical and fundamental questions in computational social choice. In this paper, we accelerate voting by leveraging quantum…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ao Liu , Qishen Han , Lirong Xia , Nengkun Yu

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

Quantum Anonymous Veto (QAV) protocols enable secure and anonymous decision-making by allowing participants to detect the presence of a veto without revealing individual choices. While existing QAV schemes offer strong theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Ravi Sangwan , Harishankar Mishra , Henry Sukumar , Gudapati Naresh Raghava

Electronic voting systems have significant advantages in comparison with physical voting systems. One of the main challenges in e-voting systems is to secure the voting process: namely, to certify that the computed results are consistent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tamir Tassa , Lihi Dery , Arthur Zamarin

An unconditionally secure authority-certified anonymous quantum key distribution scheme using conjugate coding is presented, base on which we construct a quantum election scheme without the help of entanglement state. We show that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Rui-Rui Zhou , Li Yang

Quantum resources such as superposition and entanglement have been used to provide unconditional key distribution, secret sharing and communication complexity reduction. In this letter we present a novel quantum information protocol for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Alley Hameedi , Breno Marques , Sadiq Muhammad , Marcin Wiesniak , Mohamed Bourennane

This study introduces a hybrid cryptographic framework for quantum communication that integrates entanglement-assisted decryption with phase-based physical obfuscation. While conventional quantum protocols often rely on explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Asgar Hosseinnezhad , Hadi Sabri

This paper proposes a simple voting protocol based on quantum blockchain. Besides being simple, our voting protocol is anonymous, binding, non-reusable, verifiable, eligible, fair and self-tallying. Our protocol is also realizable by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Xin Sun , Quanlong Wang , Piotr Kulicki

In an electronic voting protocol, a distributed scheme can be used for forbidding the malicious acts of the voting administrator and the counter during the election, but it cannot prevent them from collaborating to trace the ballots and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Rui-Rui Zhou , Li Yang
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