Camel: E2E Verifiable Instant Runoff Voting without Tallying Authorities

ePrint Report: Camel: E2E Verifiable Instant Runoff Voting without Tallying Authorities

Luke Harrison, Samiran Bag, Feng Hao

Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) is one example of ranked-choice voting. It provides many known benefits when used in elections, such as minimising vote splitting, ensuring few votes are wasted, and providing resistance to strategic voting. However, the voting and tallying procedures for IRV are much more complicated than those of plurality and are both error-prone and tedious. Many automated systems have been proposed …

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