ElectAnon: A Blockchain-Based, Anonymous, Robust and Scalable Ranked-Choice Voting Protocol

Onur, Ceyhun; Yurdakul, Arda

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2204.00057

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“…The proposed approach in Ref. [12] is a scheme that allows for ranked choice voting over a Blockchain network; the scheme achieves security and privacy goals in a similar manner as contemporary research, primarily through a tool Semaphore, which helps implement zkSNARKS, a type of ZKP. The scheme also utilizes Merkle trees for voter registration, and uses libraries to be able to support several RCV methods, including Borda, Majority Rule, and Condorcet.…”

Section: E-voting In Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Privacy-Preserving E-Voting System Supporting Score Voting Using Blockchain

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With the advancement of cyber threats, blockchain technology has evolved to have a significant role in providing secure and reliable decentralized applications. One of these applications is a remote voting system that allow voters to participate in elections remotely. This work proposes a privacy-preserving e-voting system supporting score voting using blockchain technology. The main challenge with score voting compared to the regular yes/no voting approach is that a voter is allowed to assign a score from a defined range for each candidate. To preserve privacy, votes shall be encrypted before submission to the Blockchain, however, a malicious voter can modify the score value before encrypting it to manipulate the elections result for the favor of a certain candidate. To address this challenge, the proposed scheme allows voters to first prove that the submitted score lies in the predefined range before the vote is added to the Blockchain to ensure fairness of the election. The performance of our scheme is evaluated against a set of comprehensive experiments designed to determine optimal bounds for workload and transaction send rates and measure the impact of exceeding these bounds on critical performance metrics. The results of these simulations and their implications therefore indicate that the proposed scheme is secure while being able to handle up to 10,000 transactions at a time.

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Section: E-voting In Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ref. [12] requires all candidates to be ranked on each ballot, which can be burdensome for the user. In Ref.…”

Section: E-voting In Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Privacy-Preserving E-Voting System Supporting Score Voting Using Blockchain

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“…Blockchain Based E-Voting schemes. In [21], Onur et al propose a blockchain-based, ranked-choice election protocol on the public Ethereum blockchain. While performance testing was only implemented locally using Hardhat, virtualized scalability was demonstrated up to 10,000 voters.…”

Section: E-votingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our developed scheme is unique, as most existing works depend on using public or locally-hosted blockchains to run an e-voting scheme. Moreover, ours is not a costly solution, as elections only run on a scheduled basis, e.g., once a year or once every four years [12,13,15,[21][22][23]. Our proposed e-voting scheme allows small businesses and governments alike to run an election in a decentralized, transparent, and secure manner.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Voting Scheme Using IBM Cloud-Based Hyperledger Fabric with Privacy-Preservation

Clarke,

McGuire,

Baza

et al. 2023

Applied Sciences

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The current traditional paper ballot voting schemes suffer from several limitations such as processing delays due to counting paper ballots, lack of transparency, and manipulation of the ballots. To solve these limitations, an electronic voting (e-voting) scheme has received massive interest from both governments and academia. In e-voting, individuals can cast their vote online using their smartphones without the need to wait in long lines. Additionally, handicapped voters who face limited wheelchair access in many polling centers could now participate in elections hassle-free. The existing e-voting schemes suffer from several limitations as they are either centralized, based on public blockchains, or utilize local private blockchains. This results in privacy issues (using public blockchains) or large financial costs (using local/private blockchains) due to the amount of computing power and technical knowledge needed to host blockchains locally. To address the aforementioned limitations, in this paper, we propose an online voting scheme using IBM cloud-based Hyperledger Fabric. Our scheme allows voters to cast their encrypted votes in a secure manner. Then any participant can obtain the ballot results in a decentralized and transparent manner, without sacrificing the privacy of individual voters. We implement the proposed scheme using IBM cloud-based Hyperledger Fabric. The experimental results identify the performance characteristics of our scheme and demonstrate that it is feasible to run an election consisting of thousands of participants using cloud-based Fabric.

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“…As technology advances, so do the methods employed by adversaries seeking to undermine the democratic process. Therefore, it is essential to develop a secure and privacy-preserving voting system to tackle these challenges [1].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Secure and Privacy-Preserving Voting System Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Miao

2023

ACE

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Electronic voting systems have the potential to improve the efficiency and accessibility of elections, but they also introduce unique challenges in terms of security, privacy, and voter anonymity. In this paper, we propose a secure and privacy-preserving voting system based on zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption. Our system ensures the integrity, confidentiality, and authenticity of votes while preserving the anonymity of voters. We present the system architecture, design, and implementation, along with a detailed analysis of the cryptographic techniques employed. The evaluation of our proposed system demonstrates its effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability, making it suitable for use in large-scale elections. This work contributes to the ongoing efforts to develop more secure, transparent, and accessible electronic voting systems for the future.

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ElectAnon: A Blockchain-Based, Anonymous, Robust and Scalable Ranked-Choice Voting Protocol

Cited by 4 publications

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Privacy-Preserving E-Voting System Supporting Score Voting Using Blockchain

Privacy-Preserving E-Voting System Supporting Score Voting Using Blockchain

Online Voting Scheme Using IBM Cloud-Based Hyperledger Fabric with Privacy-Preservation

Secure and Privacy-Preserving Voting System Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

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