Towards Secure Virtual Elections: Multiparty Computation of Order Based Voting Rules

arXiv:2205.10580v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Electronic voting systems are essential for holding virtual elections, and the need for such systems increases due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing that it mandates. One of the main challenges in e-voting systems is to secure the voting process: namely, to certify that the computed results are consistent with the cast ballots, and that the privacy of the voters is preserved. We propose herein a secure voting protocol for elections that are …

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