Abstract
Research and commercial approaches on electronic voting (e-Voting) exist and the recently emerged blockchain technology has given this research area yet another boost. However, one may claim that the actual deployment of e-Voting is at its infancy, mainly due to election integrity issues such as vote non-tampering, voter anonymity, and vote verifiability (even though the last two may seem contradictory). The integration of cryptography and blockchain technology in a single framework could provide a solid foundation for secure, anonymous and still verifiable electronic voting. This paper presents the TrustedEVoting (TeV) framework, a blockchain-based approach, that wraps not only the required key elements for secure and verifiable e-Voting but also additional features such as support for re-voting, post-election vote check and voting channel preference. The last one is important as the transition from traditional physical voting to e-Voting is not immediate and TeV framework makes provision for a multiple-channel approach for voting.
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Verwer, M.B., Dionysiou, I., Gjermundrød, H. (2020). TrustedEVoting (TeV) a Secure, Anonymous and Verifiable Blockchain-Based e-Voting Framework. In: Katsikas, S., Zorkadis, V. (eds) E-Democracy – Safeguarding Democracy and Human Rights in the Digital Age. e-Democracy 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1111. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37545-4_9
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