A Verifiable Electronic Voting Scheme over the Internet

• Published in: 2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations pp. 449 - 454
• Main Authors: Chun-Ta Li, Min-Shiang Hwang, Yan-Chi Lai
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.04.2009
• Subjects: Blind signature; Cryptography; Cryptosystem; Electronic voting; Electronic voting systems; Information management; Information technology; Internet; Management information systems; Nominations and elections; Privacy; Protection; Security; Verifiability
• ISBN: 1424437709; 9781424437702
• DOI: 10.1109/ITNG.2009.93

The electronic election allows voters to vote over the Internet without the geographical restrictions. The mobility, democracy, and privacy are important criteria in evaluating electronic voting schemes. Moreover, researchers have suggested that the supervision of ballot counting is necessary and that electronic voting systems should allow all voters to confirm the result of voting. In the light of this viewpoint, many electronic voting schemes have emphasized that the voters can verify the voting result. We called it the verifiability. Unfortunately, the property of the verifiability might encourage ballot buying. In this paper, we shall propose an electronic voting protocol that can satisfy all security requirements and allow the voter to verify whether the cast ballot has been counted correctly or not, and further, it will not encourage ballot buying.