Ensuring voters and candidates' confidentiality in E-voting systems
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
7-11-2011
Abstract
A new method based on cryptography to ensure voters and candidates' confidentiality in the Internet E-Voting, referred to as the Name and vOte separaTed E-voting (NOTE) system, is proposed. In NOTE, an impartial party, the Election Commission (EC) will be responsible for part of the vote counting duties besides collecting and verifying the voter ID. The votes and the candidates' names are separated into two parts during the counting process. EC will hold the candidates' names secret before the tally comes up; the Vote Counting Committee (VCC) only counts the votes and is not involved in unveiling the vote tally by virtue of the anonymity of the candidates. Only EC can disclose the final tally after VCC has counted all votes without knowing who the votes are for during the vote counting procedure. This scheme will effectively ensure voters and candidates' confidentiality, and thus improving election security and fairness. © 2011 IEEE.
Identifier
79959950484 (Scopus)
ISBN
[9781612846811]
Publication Title
2011 34th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium Sarnoff 2011
External Full Text Location
https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2011.5876452
Recommended Citation
Pan, Haijun; Hou, Edwin; and Ansari, Nirwan, "Ensuring voters and candidates' confidentiality in E-voting systems" (2011). Faculty Publications. 11269.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/fac_pubs/11269
