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An Elaborate Secure Quantum Voting Scheme

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An elaborate secure quantum voting scheme is presented in this paper. It is based on quantum proxy blind signature. The eligible voter’s voting information can be transmitted to the tallyman Bob with the help of the scrutineer Charlie. Charlie’s supervision in the whole voting process can make the protocol satisfy fairness and un-repeatability so as to avoid Bob’s dishonest behaviour. Our scheme uses the physical characteristics of quantum mechanics to achieve voting, counting and immediate supervision. In addition, the program also uses quantum key distribution protocol and quantum one-time pad to guarantee its unconditional security.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61402275, 61402015, 61273311), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2015JM6263, 2016JM6069), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No. GK201402004).

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    Jia-Lei Zhang & Jian-Zhong Zhang

  2. School of Science, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an, 710121, Shaanxi, China

    Shu-Cui Xie

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Zhang, JL., Xie, SC. & Zhang, JZ. An Elaborate Secure Quantum Voting Scheme. Int J Theor Phys 56, 3019–3028 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-017-3468-6

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