A Practical Electronic Voting Protocol Using Threshold Schemes

This paper presents a novel secret voting scheme which fully conforms to the requirements of large scale elections. The participants in the scheme are voters, candidates, an administrator, and a counter. The scheme uses threshold encryption to preserve the privacy and accuracy of the votes against dishonesty of voters, candidates, the administrator, and the counter. It also ensures verifiability, fairness, and soundness of the voting process and hence neither administrator nor candidates, or the counter is capable of producing false tally, affecting the voting result, or corrupting/disrupting the election. A Practical Electronic Voting Protocol Using Threshold Schemes 1 Introduction The development of cryptographic techniques allow us to "computerize" many areas of human activities. Voting is an important human activity in a democratic society. The problem of providing a secure system which ensures privacy of the voters and accuracy of the votes, and is suitable for application in l..