A system is called an electronic voting system when ballots are directly recorded electronically. Standards for such systems have been set by the Federal Election Commission. In most such systems used today, voters go to designated polling places, and cast their votes electronically after being identified and authorized by conventional, non-electronic means. In the near future, we envision systems in which voters securely send their ballots to the authorities over a network. Current research on electronic voting schemes is concerned with maintaining the privacy of the ballots while ensuring their validity, and with reliably verifying the final tally.
The general technique of secure multiparty computation can be applied to solve this problem in theory. However, such a solution places a heavy computational load on the voter's computer, and requires transaction with all other voters, making it impractical. A more realistic approach is to establish voting authorities and develop protocols...
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Sako, K. (2005). Electronic Voting Schemes. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23483-7_126
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