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We present Phrase-Verified Voting, a voter-verifiable remote voting system assembled from commercial off-the-shelf software for small private elections. The system is transparent and enables each voter to verify that the tally includes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Enka Blanchard , Ryan Robucci , Ted Selker , Alan Sherman

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

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

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

Access control is a security mechanism designed to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources. Cross-domain access control involves access to resources across different organizations, institutions, or applications.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Aiyao Zhang , Xiaodong Lee , Zhixian Zhuang , Jiuqi Wei , Yufan Fu , Botao Peng

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

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

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

We present an online voting architecture based on partitioning the election in small clusters of voters and using a new Multi-party Computation algorithm for obtaining voting results from the clusters. This new algorithm has some practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Juanjo Bermúdez

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

DAO Governance is currently broken. We survey the state of the art and find worrying conclusions. Vote buying, vote selling and coercion are easy. The wealthy rule, decentralisation is a myth. Hostile take-overs are incentivised. Ballot…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Aida Manzano Kharman , Ben Smyth

Internet voting will probably be one of the most significant achievements of the future information society. It will have an enormous impact on the election process making it fast, reliable and inexpensive. Nonetheless, so far remote voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-04-16 Lukasz Nitschke

In an organization specifically as virtual as cloud there is need for access control systems to constrain users direct or backhanded action that could lead to breach of security. In cloud, apart from owner access to confidential data the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Muralikrishnan Ramane , Balaji Vasudevan , Sathappan Allaphan

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

The privacy of communicating participants is often of paramount importance, but in some situations it is an essential condition. A typical example is a fair (secret) voting. We analyze in detail communication privacy based on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mark Hillery , Mario Ziman , Vladimir Buzek , Martina Bielikova

Providing functionalities that allow online social network users to manage in a secure and private way the publication of their information and/or resources is a relevant and far from trivial topic that has been under scrutiny from various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Stefano Braghin , Vincenzo Iovino , Giuseppe Persiano , Alberto Trombetta

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

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

Advances in E2E verifiable voting have the potential to fundamentally restore trust in elections and democratic processes in society. In this chapter, we provide a comprehensive introduction to the field. We trace the evolution of privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Syed Taha Ali , Judy Murray

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