BBV: [Tech/Theory] Practical Multi-Candidate Election System

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Practical Multi-Candidate Election System
O. Baudron, P.-A. Fouque, D. Pointcheval, G. Poupard and J. Stern

The aim of electronic voting schemes is to provide a set of protocols that allow voters to cast ballots while a group of authorites collect the votes and output the final tally. In this paper we describe a practical multi-candidate election scheme that guarantees privacy of voters, public verifiability, and robustness against a coalition of malicious authorities. Furthermore, we address the problem of receipt-freeness and incoercibility of the voters. Our new scheme is based on the Paillier cryptosystem and on some related zero-knowledge proof techniques. The voting schems are very practical and can be efficiently implemented in a real system.

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