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Quantum Anonymous Voting Protocol with the Privacy Protection of the Candidate

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In this paper, we propose a new quantum anonymous voting protocol, which protects the privacy of not only the voting content of the voters, but also the number of the votes received by the candidate. Compared with previous protocols, our protocol considers the privacy of the candidate, so it can meet higher secure requirements. In addition, this protocol provides identity authentication for the voters, which ensures that only the legal voters can vote.

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This work was partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61772001, 11301002). Natural Science Foundation for the Higher Education institutions of Anhui Province of China (KJ2018A0017).

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    Shun Zhang, Sheng-lan Wang, Qing Wang & Run-hua Shi

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Zhang, S., Wang, Sl., Wang, Q. et al. Quantum Anonymous Voting Protocol with the Privacy Protection of the Candidate. Int J Theor Phys 58, 3323–3332 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-019-04205-5

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