Paperless independently-verifiable voting

  • Authors:
  • David Chaum;Alex Florescu;Mridul Nandi;Stefan Popoveniuc;Jan Rubio;Poorvi L. Vora;Filip Zagórski

  • Affiliations:
  • The George Washington University, Washington D.C.;The George Washington University, Washington D.C.;Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India;The George Washington University, Washington D.C.;The George Washington University, Washington D.C.;The George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India;The George Washington University, Washington D.C.

  • Venue:
  • VoteID'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on E-Voting and Identity
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present a new model for polling-booth voting: the voter enters the polling booth with a computational assistant which helps her verify that her vote is correctly recorded. The assistant interacts with the voting system while the voter votes on the machine in the polling booth. We present an independently-verifiable, coercion-resistant protocol based on this model. Unlike all other independently-verifiable protocols, this one is completely paperless and does not require the voter to perform any tasks outside the polling booth. We provide property definitions, rigorous claims and a description of a prototype.