Electronic Voting Protocols Based on Blind Signatures

In this paper, we review the electronic voting protocols based on blind signature scheme. These protocols try to fulfil the following electronic voting requirements: eligibility, privacy, receipt-freeness, fairness, accuracy, individual verifiability and universal verifiability. Some of them like eligibility and privacy are easily achieved by the nature of blind signatures; on the other hand, some others like universal verifiability and accuracy are not achieved without some assumptions and conditions. Thus, the certain number of voter involvements into the voting process is definitely required; otherwise the malicious authority can add extra votes or impersonate abstained voters.