A Practical Electronic Voting Protocol Using Threshold Schemes

This paper presents a novel secret voting scheme which fully conforms to the requirements of large scale elections. The participants in the scheme are voters, candidates, an administrator, and a counter. The scheme uses threshold encryption to preserve the privacy and accuracy of the votes against dishonesty of voters, candidates, the administrator , and the counter. It also ensures veriiability, fairness, and soundness of the voting process and hence neither administrator nor candidates, or the counter is capable of producing false tally, aaecting the voting result, or corrupting/disrupting the election.