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Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion.

Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion. For example: democracies elect holders of high office by voting.

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Are there reasonably secure online voting implementations e.g. for student council elections?

Assume a university want to elect the student council. This was done via paper ballot and there is a need to reach more students for voting, so electronic voting is on the table. While researching existing solutions I came across Helios: helios…
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E-voting: public tallying vs. vote selling

There are many design goals for an e-voting system. My question concerns a conflict between 2 particular goals: A voter should be able to verify that their vote was correctly tallied A voter should not be able to prove how they voted (to prevent…
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What is chain voting?

I read The Three Ballot Voting System by Rivest. This paper-based voting system can be attacked with chain voting. But can't find any description of what "Chain voting" is mentioned in section 4.9. Would anyone explain what it is?
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Unique decentralized ID systems

We are all familiar with the standard decentralized ID system, the web of trust, e.g. for PGP keys. However, normal web of trust systems are unable to guarantee uniqueness — there's no practical limit on the number of public keys I can register…
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Is "Bingo voting" insecure against a corrupt election authority?

I am reading about "Bingo voting" (Wikipedia, Paper), and I'm not understanding how it is secure against a corrupt election authority. If the election authority knows all the dummy votes $N_j^i$, can't it just look at any voter's ballot and tell…
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Helios: Where are admin tools stated in the paper

I read the Helios Paper Helios: Web-based Open-Audit Voting. In section 4.4 Anonymization they are saying that "once the voting period ends" the admin can "shuffle" (re-encrypt and permutate), "shuffle proof", "decrypt" and "decrypt proof" and then…
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