A New Proxy Electronic Voting Scheme Based on Proxy Signatures

[[abstract]]Electronic voting (e-voting) is used to solve the problems of traditional paper-based voting and to lower costs. So far, many researchers have offered their secure e-voting systems. However, the existing schemes do not seem to meet the requirement of delegation. For example, a stockholder may want to assign some other person in the company to vote by using a warrant, and the system should provide such service. In this paper, the authors propose a novel e-voting scheme called the proxy e-voting scheme that has the ability to delegate a proxy to vote. The proxy e-voting scheme can satisfy all the requirements we bring up. As a result, the scheme not only can be easily implemented but also has less computational cost for voters to cast the ballot