Masked Ballot Voting for Receipt-Free Online Elections

  • Authors:
  • Roland Wen;Richard Buckland

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2052;School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2052

  • Venue:
  • VOTE-ID '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-Voting and Identity
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

To prevent bribery and coercion attacks on voters, current online election schemes rely on strong physical assumptions during the election. We introduce Masked Ballot, an online voting scheme that mitigates these attacks while using a more practical assumption: untappable channels are available but only before the election. During the election voters cast ballots over completely public channels without relying on untappable channels, anonymous channels or trusted devices. Masked Ballot performs only the voting part of an election and is designed to integrate with counting schemes that compute the final election result.