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Questions tagged [electronic-voting]

IT systems which gather and count votes for a poll, preferably in a way which ensures the ballot is both secret and manipulation-resistant.

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How could I make the results of a yes/no vote inaccessible unless it's unanimous in the affirmative, without a trusted third party?

A family of N people (where N >= 3) are members of a cult. A suggestion is floated anonymously among them to leave the cult. If, in fact, every single person secretly harbors the desire to leave, it would be best if the family knew about that so…
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Is automated and digitized ballot processing inherently more dangerous than manual pencil and paper?

This is on a somewhat layman's level. I'm not a security guru. Looking at this in very, very broad and general terms: Election fraud is definitely a serious issue that needs to guarded against pretty heavily, ideally by many third-party officials…
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Online Government Elections System - Is it possible?

I am from Bulgaria and currently some groups here are promoting the idea of referendum among the people, about the possibility for establishing a system for ONLINE GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS. The idea is that the people should be able to vote for…
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Why is e-voting still a problem?

Electronic voting has been considered technical infeasible for a long time. And recently I watched a video from the channel Computerphile on YouTube where they bring up all the problems that come along with e-voting. But with distributed ledgers and…
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E-voting: receipt-free, verifiable, and anonymous

Background In response to a system design concept, a question was posed: How do you achieve electronic voting, anonymity, and verifiability at the same time? I was informed that most experts in the field believe it to be practically impossible…
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Can a zero knowledge proof of voting be made using a trusted auth server (without client side crypto)?

Questions: Can one implement a secure voting system having all the features described below? e.g. without disclosing any individual's vote to the government server (or the third party), preserving all the desired criteria of a ZKP vote, etc. Are…
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Secure Internet Polling

In the United States, there has been a lot of talk about creating a secure polling system that would operate over the internet. I have also heard that Securing a poll over the Internet is impossible. The system would need to be secure enough that…
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Online votes where two-part codes are sent together

A lot of societies that I am a member of allow online voting for their AGMs (to elect members, approve minutes, etc). To vote in these all members are sent out a two part code - however the two codes are always sent together either in an email or a…
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What if the voting machine is the adversary (Distributed Knowledge/Trust)

I read some e-voting questions here, but most deal with simple things like securing the connection from external attackers. But they usually put implicit trust on the central voting authority to be honest. So assume you have 1000 Voters, and a…
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Anonymized Votes

Background Looking to create an anonymous voting system. The system must track whether or not a user voted on an item (public information), but only that user is ever allowed to know whether they voted for or against an item (private…
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Voting w/ SAML + BlockChain

There are a few grass roots initiatives to introduce blockchain as a ledger for election voting. My criticism of the ones I have seen, at the time I saw them, is that they did not adequately address the paradox of anonymity vs identity. Our election…
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Prove a client sent a request - voting system

Let's say I created a voting system where each voter would use an app and vote on a candidate. The app would send the vote to a server. The server would store the vote on a DB with the request IP. Is it possible to implement something to guarantee…
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Why cant all voters be authorities in homomorphic encryption based voting scemes?

In voting scemes I have seen so far that are based on homomorphic encryption, a group of partially trusted "authorities" share the task of decrypting the result. The voter has to trust at least one of the authorities to be sure that his personal…
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Why can't Google Forms be used for elections?

I have been looking into secure online voting systems for a fairly small-scale (though extremely important) leadership election (~1000 voters). I have been researching End-to-End auditable voting systems and the such, but then I started to think…
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Creating a semi-anonymous voting system

I'm working with a model government simulation for fun over on reddit. I was wondering if there is a way that I could improve anonymity of votes and ensure that all votes are legitimate. This is the way that we currently do things: A voting form…
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