Thwarting Last-Minute Voter Coercion

ePrint Report: Thwarting Last-Minute Voter Coercion

Rosario Giustolisi, Maryam Sheikhi Garjan, Carsten Schuermann

Counter-strategies are key components of coercion-resistant voting schemes, allowing voters to submit votes that represent their own intentions in an environment controlled by a coercer. By deploying a counter-strategy a voter can prevent the coercer from learning if the voter followed the coercer’s instructions or not. Two effective counter-strategies have been proposed in the literature, one based on fake credentials and another on revoting. While fake-credential schemes …

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