Privacy Preservation in I-voting Using Homomorphic Technology
Shubhangi S. Shinde, Sonali Shukla, D. K. Chitre · 2013
Voting is one of the most important activities in a democratic society. In a usual voting environment voting process sometimes becomes quite difficult due to the unwillingness of certain voters to visit a polling booth to cast votes besides involving huge social and human resources. The advance of computer networks and security techniques help the implementation of electronic voting. I-voting protocol is based on Homomorphic Technology and guarantees eligibility, unreusability, privacy, verifiability and also receipt-freeness and uncoercibility. The scheme can be implemented in a practical environment, since it does not use voting booth or untappable channel, only public channels are applied. The proposed protocol encompasses three distinct phases- that of registration phase, voting phase and counting phase involving five parties, the voter, certification centre, authentication server, voting server and a tallying server.