In this paper we present a new multi-authority secret-ballot election scheme that guarantees privacy, universal veriiability, and ro-bustness. It is the rst scheme for which the performance is optimal in the sense that time and communication complexity is minimal both for the individual voters and the authorities. An interesting property of the scheme is that the time and communication complexi...

i?Si Student Council authorities prepared this week to take care of what is expected to be the largest vote in the history of Rice Institute as interest in t l ^ general election Monday soared because of an unprecedented battle of engineers, cliques, and organizers. Charlie Moser, Albert Sterling, and Willoughby (Billy) Williams head the ballot in a fight for the presidency of the Student Assoc...

For an electronic election to be fully democratic there is a need for security mechanisms that will assure the privacy of the voters. With receipt-free electronic voting, a voter neither obtains nor is able to construct a receipt proving the content of her vote. In this paper we first consider the minimal requirements for receipt-free elections, without untappable communication channels between...

Traditional conceptions of democratic publics are changing due to the rise social media as a global communication tool. While brings people together globally and creates new spaces for creativity resistance, it is also space harassment, discrimination, violence. As recent debates about hate speech distribution “fake news” have shown, political responsibilities consequences regulating online con...

The impossibility theorems that abound in the theory of social choice show that there can be no satisfactory method for electing and ranking in the context of the traditional, 700-year-old model. A more realistic model, whose antecedents may be traced to Laplace and Galton, leads to a new theory that avoids all impossibilities with a simple and eminently practical method, "the majority judgemen...

In a democratic country, voting is one of the most important activity. In many democracies over the years, there has been decrease in the number of voters coming for election because of the inconvenient voting system. An electronic voting scheme allows voters to vote securely from distance through internet by interacting with a set of authorities. However there is always a chance that an advers...

The scheme of ABRTY (Araújo et al., CANS 2010) is one of the most promising solutions for internet voting nowadays. It fights realistic coercive attacks and can be applied in large scale voting scenarios as it has linear time complexity. However, this scheme has two intrinsic drawbacks. As it does not allow revocation of credentials of ineligible voters, voters need to obtain fresh credentials ...

On November 3, 2009, voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, cast ballots for the mayor and city council members using the Scantegrity II voting system—the first time any end-to-end (E2E) voting system with ballot privacy has been used in a binding governmental election. This case study describes the various efforts that went into the election—including the improved design and implementation of the vo...