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Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion.

Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion. For example: democracies elect holders of high office by voting.

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How is the Swiss post e-voting system supposed to work, and how was it wrong?

I read that the Swiss post had an e-voting solution developed, made it possible to obtain the source code for review, and that vulnerabilities were found. Apparently we are not talking about the inherent and well-known issues of e-voting: it can't…
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How to create a decentralized secret ballot among a small group of people?

A small (< 100) group wants to implement an election. For that, each participant must vote in one of N candidates. After everyone has voted, they must be able to determine a winner; yet, nobody must be able to determine the vote of someone else.…
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Can Elgamal be made additively homomorphic and how could it be used for E-voting?

Elgamal is a cryptosystem that is homomorphic over multiplication. How can I convert it to an additive homomorphic cryptosystem? How can I use this additive homomorphic Elgamal cryptosystem for E-voting purpose? Please explain with examples.
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Are there reasonably secure online voting implementations e.g. for student council elections?

Assume a university want to elect the student council. This was done via paper ballot and there is a need to reach more students for voting, so electronic voting is on the table. While researching existing solutions I came across Helios: helios…
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Voting scheme where the votes become public when a threshold is reached

Does there exist a voting scheme where voters cast private encrypted votes that automatically become public only after the threshold number of votes is cast? It needs to be done without a central authority that is trusted to hold keys. I don't need…
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How do voters verify a Helios (v3) election result?

So from my understanding of verification specification version 3, a Helios election proceeds as follows: A voter retrieves the system's public key to encrypt their vote & submit it. The voter gets a fingerprint representing their vote. When the…
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E-voting: public tallying vs. vote selling

There are many design goals for an e-voting system. My question concerns a conflict between 2 particular goals: A voter should be able to verify that their vote was correctly tallied A voter should not be able to prove how they voted (to prevent…
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Providing tokens for anonymous survey

I want to conduct an anonymous Internet survey (e.g. “What’s your favorite fruit?” with a multiple choice answer) among a given set of people. Double answers by the same participant are not allowed. I’m looking for a method to conduct this survey…
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How to construct a yes/no election protocol, such that only the result is revealed?

Can we use a threshold scheme to construct a (yes/no)-election protocol, such that every voter can give a positive or negative vote or he can abstain, and such that only the result of the election is revealed, but the number of positives, negatives…
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Approach towards anonymous e-voting

I want to implement an internet-based e-voting system. Voters shall be able to cast their vote for one out of n possible candidates. Each candidate has his own ballot-box kept by and at a trustworthy third party. This third party is absolutely…
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An electronic voting system

This semester I am taking the course Cryptography. I will have a presentation about the topic "Voting Scheme". I am preparing myself by reading from the book “Cryptography : an Introduction” by N.Smart and I came across some points at which I am…
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Current Status of mixnets for voting

I am currently doing some research on universally verifiable mixnets, but it seems to me that there are too few papers about them after 2006 or so and most of them come from the team of Douglas Winkstrom. Is this correct? Can anybody point me to…
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Murder Mystery Party

For a "Murder Mystery Party", one person is chosen anonymously to be the murderer (i.e., only the murderer knows who the murderer is) by shuffling cards with everyone randomly taking a private card (one card has "You Are The Murderer!" written on…
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What is chain voting?

I read The Three Ballot Voting System by Rivest. This paper-based voting system can be attacked with chain voting. But can't find any description of what "Chain voting" is mentioned in section 4.9. Would anyone explain what it is?
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Cryptographically secure shaming

I was thinking of the problem of naming&shaming, victims don't want to reveal themselves. Yet the public wants to know, and have some confidence in the veracity of statements. Such confidence could arise for instance from multiple victims naming the…
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