TY - GEN
T1 - Ensuring voters and candidates' confidentiality in E-voting systems
AU - Pan, Haijun
AU - Hou, Edwin
AU - Ansari, Nirwan
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A new method based on cryptography to ensure voters and candidates' confidentiality in the Internet E-Voting, referred to as the Name and vOte separaTed E-voting (NOTE) system, is proposed. In NOTE, an impartial party, the Election Commission (EC) will be responsible for part of the vote counting duties besides collecting and verifying the voter ID. The votes and the candidates' names are separated into two parts during the counting process. EC will hold the candidates' names secret before the tally comes up; the Vote Counting Committee (VCC) only counts the votes and is not involved in unveiling the vote tally by virtue of the anonymity of the candidates. Only EC can disclose the final tally after VCC has counted all votes without knowing who the votes are for during the vote counting procedure. This scheme will effectively ensure voters and candidates' confidentiality, and thus improving election security and fairness.
AB - A new method based on cryptography to ensure voters and candidates' confidentiality in the Internet E-Voting, referred to as the Name and vOte separaTed E-voting (NOTE) system, is proposed. In NOTE, an impartial party, the Election Commission (EC) will be responsible for part of the vote counting duties besides collecting and verifying the voter ID. The votes and the candidates' names are separated into two parts during the counting process. EC will hold the candidates' names secret before the tally comes up; the Vote Counting Committee (VCC) only counts the votes and is not involved in unveiling the vote tally by virtue of the anonymity of the candidates. Only EC can disclose the final tally after VCC has counted all votes without knowing who the votes are for during the vote counting procedure. This scheme will effectively ensure voters and candidates' confidentiality, and thus improving election security and fairness.
KW - NOTE
KW - cryptography
KW - vote tally
KW - voters and candidates' confidentiality
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U2 - 10.1109/SARNOF.2011.5876452
DO - 10.1109/SARNOF.2011.5876452
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959950484
SN - 9781612846811
T3 - 2011 34th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, SARNOFF 2011
BT - 2011 34th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, SARNOFF 2011
T2 - 2011 34th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, SARNOFF 2011
Y2 - 3 May 2011 through 4 May 2011
ER -