A Framework for Receipt Issuing, Contendable Remote Poll-Site Voting

This paper presents a new framework for an electronic voting system in which a voter can vote not only from his home poll-site, but from any poll-site, in a manner that guarantees total voter anonymity and privacy. The core concentration of our work is the design of a mechanism in which a voter can be given a receipt to acknowledge his vote and at the same time preventing any occurrence of vote-selling or voter coercion. The voter shall be able to verify his vote – from anywhere – after election results have been published. If deemed necessary, the voter shall be able to anonymously contend the election results from any election office. Much of the present literature views receipt-freeness as the necessity for precluding vote-selling and voter coercion. They present a “clear” picture of a tradeoff between the “mutually exclusive” issues of receipt issuance and voter security. The solution we propose overcomes this tradeoff and thus ensures the voter’s confidence in that his vote has been counted as cast, without compromising voter security and privacy.