Stationary Computer Based Voting Process at Polling Booth

The Voting Booth Catherine

The then-modern panopticon, in its subtle and unseen exercise of voyeurism and power, was to be sure an improvement over the crowded, stale prisons that preceded it. Which already incarcerated individual would not give up some personal freedom for such improved conditions? The same line of reasoning is used in modern surveillance systems. Just last week, in a New York Times article on Chicago’s...

Better and less-costly electronic voting at polling places

Voting with unconditional privacy: CFSY for booth voting

We adapt the Cramer, Franklin, Schoenmaker and Yung internet voting protocol[12] to the booth setting. In this protocol, expressions of the form g 0g x1

Voting with unconditionally privacy: CFSY for booth voting

In this note we simplify the Cramer, Franklin, Schoenmaker and Yung internet voting protocol to the booth setting. In it, objects of the form g 0g x1 1 · · · g xl l (mod q) are used to define an unconditionally hiding commitment scheme. Because of their homomorphic properties they are particularly suited for voting protocols with unconditional privacy. In fact, we show that almost all existing ...

Secure Voting Using Disconnected, Distributed Polling Devices

We present a system for secure electronic voting which does not rely on persistent network connections between the polling places and the vote tallying server.