A secure electronic voting protocol for general elections

Abstract

Elections and voting behavior are always in our lives. As the activities increase on Internet, some elections and voting behavior would be brought on Internet. It is called “Electronic voting”. Electronic voting can solve the cost problem that occurs in traditional election. But electronic voting still has some problems like completeness, uncoercibility, non-cheating problems. In this paper, most properties of the electronic voting would be discussed and a new proposed electronic voting scheme would try to satisfy these properties and to solve problems mentioned. Furthermore, it also investigates what happens in the real world and how to solve these problems in practice.