TRIP: Trust-Limited Coercion-Resistant In-Person Voter Registration

arXiv:2202.06692v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Remote electronic voting is convenient and flexible, but presents risks of coercion and vote buying. One promising mitigation strategy enables voters to give a coercer fake voting credentials, which silently cast votes that do not count. However, current proposals make problematic assumptions during credential issuance, such as relying on a trustworthy registrar, on trusted hardware, or on voters interacting with multiple registrars. We present TRIP, the first voter registration scheme that addresses these challenges by …

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