Electronic voting is a prime application of cryptographic tools. Many researches are addressing election or confidence voting in this area. We address a new type of voting scheme “Divisible Voting Scheme,” in which each voter has multiple ballots where the number of ballots can be different among the voters. This type of voting is popular. We first define the divisible voting scheme and show na...

Voting is commonly used as a method for aggregating information in crowdsourcing and human computation. In many settings, one would like to use voting rules which can be efficiently elicited, preserve voter privacy, and are robust to strategic manipulation. In this paper, we give algorithms which elicit approximate winners in a way which provably satisfies all three of these requirements simult...

The goal of this research was to assess the usability of a voting system designed for current-generation smartphones. Smartphones offer remote participation in elections through the use of pervasive technology and voting on these devices could, among other benefits, increase voter participation while allowing voters to use familiar technology. We developed a mobile voting system for the iPhone ...

In the recent years it has often been discussed how elections can be conducted via the Internet. Many countries, including Germany, Estonia, Great Britain, Switzerland, USA or Austria have run tests of implementing e-Voting on different levels. Whilst offering e-Voting for public elections implies various legal problems, associations can allow for e-Voting in a relatively easy way. In this pape...

Introduction This paper is intended to introduce the subject of electronic voting. Electronic voting will be described in the context of other voting technologies. The potential benefits and risks of electronic voting systems are discussed. There will be some brief discussion of the current " environment " in terms of standards and testing programs, current and pending legislation, and electron...

Voting is a way for a voter to make a decision or express an opinion or to choose a candidate. E-voting (Electronic Voting) refers to both the electronic means of casting a vote and the electronic means of counting and publishing that votes. The E voting system has some specific advantages as compared to the traditional voting system. In this paper, a secure and efficient e-voting protocol is p...

All the currently existing homomorphic e-voting schemes are based on additive homomorphism. In this paper a new e-voting scheme based on multiplicative homomorphism is proposed. In the tallying phase, a decryption is performed to recover the product of the votes, instead of the sum of them (as in the additive homomorphic e-voting schemes). Then, the product is factorized to recover the votes. T...

Voting tools have been incorporated into Group Support Systems (GSS) for a long time. However, theory and research on voting in GSS have been neglected. This paper reviews findings of GSS research on voting and examines the lessons learned on using voting tools in GSS. A framework is proposed to investigate voting in GSS. Additionally, directions for future research are discussed

In a yes/no voting game, a set of voters must determine whether to accept or reject a given alternative. Weighted voting games are a well-studied subclass of yes/no voting games, in which each voter has a weight, and an alternative is accepted if the total weight of its supporters exceeds a certain threshold. Weighted voting games are naturally extended to k-vector weighted voting games, which ...

Voting is one of the most important activities in a democratic society. In a traditional voting environment voting process sometimes becomes quite inconvenient due to the reluctance of certain voters to visit a polling booth to cast votes besides involving huge social and human resources. The development of computer networks and elaboration of cryptographic techniques facilitate the implementat...