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Original Research
The Future of E-voting
Abstract
Voting systems have been around for hundreds of years and despite different views on their integrity, have always been deemed secure with some fundamental security and anonymity principles. Numerous electronic systems have been proposed and implemented but some suspicion has been raised regarding the integrity of elections due to detected security vulnerabilities within these systems. Electronic voting, to be successful, requires a more transparent and secure approach, than is offered by current protocols. The approach presented in this paper involves a protocol developed on blockchain technology. The underlying technology used in the voting system is a payment scheme, which offers anonymity of transactions, a trait not seen in blockchain protocols to date. The proposed protocol offers anonymity of voter transactions, while keeping the transactions private, and the election transparent and secure. The underlying payment protocol has not been modified in any way, the voting protocol merely offers an alternative use case.
Keywords
Blockchain
E-Voting
Zcash
zk-SNARK
Declarations & Ethics
Funding:
This research received academic dissemination support through ESCAP / JournalsHub publishing programs.
Conflicts of Interest:
The authors declare no competing financial or institutional interests.
Peer Review:
Double-blind peer reviewed by international subject specialists.
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
How to Cite This Article
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Tarasov, et al. (2017). The Future of E-voting. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2017_v12i2_11
Tarasov, et al. "The Future of E-voting." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 12, no. 2, 2017. https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2017_v12i2_11
Tarasov, et al. "The Future of E-voting." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems 12, no. 2 (2017). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2017_v12i2_11