Paper 2004/105 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2004/105 ↗

Receipt-Free Homomorphic Elections and Write-in Ballots

Alessandro Acquisti
Abstract

We present a voting protocol that protects voters' privacy and achieves universal verifiability, receipt-freeness, and uncoercibility without ad hoc physical assumptions or procedural constraints (such as untappable channels, voting booths, smart cards, third-party randomizers, and so on). We discuss under which conditions the scheme allows voters to cast write-in ballots, and we show how it can be practically implemented through voter-verified (paper) ballots. The scheme allows voters to combine voting credentials with their chosen votes applying the homomorphic properties of certain probabilistic cryptosystems.

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Preprint.
History
2004-05-07: last updated
2004-05-07: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2004/105
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2004/105,
      author = {Alessandro Acquisti},
      title = {Receipt-Free Homomorphic Elections and Write-in Ballots},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2004/105},
      year = {2004},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/105}
}
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