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Electronic voting (e-voting) is used to solve the problems of traditional paper-based voting and to lower costs. So far, many researchers have offered their secure e-voting systems. However, the existing schemes do not seem to meet the requirement of delegation. For example, a stockholder may want to assign some other person in the company to vote by using a warrant, and the system should provide such service. In this paper, the authors propose a novel e-voting scheme called the proxy e-voting scheme that has the ability to delegate a proxy to vote. The proxy e-voting scheme can satisfy all the requirements we bring up. As a result, the scheme not only can be easily implemented but also has less computational cost for voters to cast the ballots.
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This research was partially supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C., under contract no.: NSC 100-2221-E-030-015 and 100-2218-E-164-002.
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Lee, CC., Chen, TY., Lin, SC., Hwang, MS. (2012). A New Proxy Electronic Voting Scheme Based on Proxy Signatures. In: J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, J., Leung, V., Wang, CL., Shon, T. (eds) Future Information Technology, Application, and Service. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 164. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4516-2_1
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