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Electronic voting is an essential component of the e-governance of a country for establishing the people's choice in selecting the political leadership. Poll station voting is generally considered to be the most successful form of the election process. Both traditional and electronic versions of the poll station voting had many implementations in general elections, worldwide. The remote poll station voting scheme allows voters to participate in the election process if they have an access to any one of the poll station, no matter where they are at the time of voting. However, this scheme suffers from declining participation due to the inconvenience to the voters in reaching the poll stations. Also, this scheme needs a secure, private network for connecting the poll stations, making it very expensive. The remote Internet voting is very user convenient, which allows voting from any Internet connected computer, from anywhere. However, security, reliability and complexity issues have restricted the wider adoption of this scheme in large-scale elections. This paper proposes a secure and efficient frontend voting protocol using a trusted platform module for remote Internet voting with trusted third party authentication protocol.

Electronic voting has found wider acceptance both in developed and developing countries in the recent past. The current research focuses mainly in the area of privacy and security aspects of e-voting. In spite of the good security and privacy features, the existing e-voting protocols remain useful only to small elections or just to support the conventional voting, mainly because of their high computational overhead. Naturally, e-voting is not in wide use, even in the developed countries. Thus, there is a need for e-voting protocols which are secure and practical, but with less complexity. This paper proposes an efficient protocol and framework for the practical implementation of the electronic election process. An analysis on the largest election process in the world shows that the proposed protocol has the potential to serve as an efficient polling system with increased voter turnout. This protocol can be adopted easily in the developed world too.

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This paper proposes a voting scheme that coalesces many features of an efficient e- voting scheme like receipt-freeness, uncoercibility, E2E verifiable and write-in ballot. Some of the previous schemes in the past literatures provide most of these features at the cost of increased running time. This paper proposes a simple and efficient voting scheme that is coercion resistant and E2E verifiable. It also has the write-in property. Our protocol addresses some of the major drawbacks of previous popular voting schemes to make the proposed scheme applicable for any kind of real time elections.