Towards Secure Virtual Elections: Multiparty Computation of Order Based Voting Rules. (arXiv:2205.10580v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)

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
governed by order-based voting rules. …

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