Verifiable and Private Vote-by-Mail

ePrint Report: Verifiable and Private Vote-by-Mail

Henri Devillez, Olivier Pereira, Thomas Peters

Vote-by-mail is increasingly used in Europe and worldwide for government elections. Nevertheless, very few attempts have been made towards the design of verifiable vote-by-mail, and none of them come with a rigorous security analysis. Furthermore, the ballot privacy of the currently deployed (non-verifiable) vote-by-mail systems relies on procedural means that a single malicious operator can bypass.


We propose a verifiable vote-by-mail system that can accommodate the …

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