Election Eligibility with OpenID: Turning Authentication into Transferable Proof of Eligibility

ePrint Report: Election Eligibility with OpenID: Turning Authentication into Transferable Proof of Eligibility

Véronique Cortier, Alexandre Debant, Anselme Goetschmann, Lucca Hirschi

Eligibility checks are often abstracted away or omitted in voting protocols, leading to situations where the voting server can easily stuff the ballot box. One reason for this is the difficulty of bootstraping the authentication material for voters without relying on trusting the voting server.
In this paper, we propose a new protocol that solves this problem by building …

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