A Verifiable Voting Protocol based on Farnel

Roberto Araujo; Ricardo Felipe Custodio; Jeroen van de Graaf

Paper 2007/252 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2007/252 ↗

A Verifiable Voting Protocol based on Farnel

Roberto Araujo

Ricardo Felipe Custodio

Jeroen van de Graaf

Abstract

Farnel is a voting system proposed in 2001 in which each voter signs a ballot. It uses two ballot boxes to avoid the association between a voter and a vote. In this paper we first point out a flaw in the ThreeBallot system proposed by Rivest that seems to have gone unnoticed so far: it reveals statistical information about who is winning the election. Then, trying to resolve this and other flaws, we present a new, voter-verifiable version of the Farnel voting system in which voters retain copies of ballot IDs as receipts.

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Available format(s): PDF
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2008-01-08: last updated; 2007-06-27: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2007/252
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2007/252,
      author = {Roberto Araujo and Ricardo Felipe Custodio and Jeroen van de Graaf},
      title = {A Verifiable Voting Protocol based on Farnel},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2007/252},
      year = {2007},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/252}
}