DEMO: A Secure Voting System for Score Based Elections

Lihi Dery; Tamir Tassa; Avishay Yanai; Arthur Zamarin

doi:10.1145/3460120.3485343

DEMO: A Secure Voting System for Score Based Elections

Lihi Dery, Tamir Tassa, Avishay Yanai, Arthur Zamarin

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Dery et al. recently proposed a secure voting protocol for score-based elections, where independent talliers perform the tallying procedure. The protocol offers perfect ballot secrecy: it outputs the identity of the winner(s), but keeps all other information secret, even from the talliers. This high level of privacy, which may encourage voters to vote truthfully, and the protocol's extremely lightweight nature, make it a most adequate and powerful tool for democracies of any size. We have implemented that system and in this work we describe the system's components - election administrators, voters and talliers - and its operation. Our implementation is in Python and is open source. We view this demo as an essential step towards convincing decision makers in communities that practice score-based elections to adopt it as their election platform.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CCS 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2399-2401
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450384544
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3460120.3485343
State	Published - 12 Nov 2021
Event	27th ACM Annual Conference on Computer and Communication Security, CCS 2021 - Virtual, Online, Korea, Republic of Duration: 15 Nov 2021 → 19 Nov 2021

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
ISSN (Print)	1543-7221

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Conference	27th ACM Annual Conference on Computer and Communication Security, CCS 2021
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Virtual, Online
Period	15/11/21 → 19/11/21

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Keywords

computational social choice
electronic voting
perfect ballot secrecy
secure multiparty computation
voting protocols

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Dery, L., Tassa, T., Yanai, A., & Zamarin, A. (2021). DEMO: A Secure Voting System for Score Based Elections. In CCS 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 2399-2401). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3460120.3485343

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Dery, L, Tassa, T, Yanai, A & Zamarin, A 2021, DEMO: A Secure Voting System for Score Based Elections. in CCS 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 2399-2401, 27th ACM Annual Conference on Computer and Communication Security, CCS 2021, Virtual, Online, Korea, Republic of, 15/11/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3460120.3485343

DEMO: A Secure Voting System for Score Based Elections. / Dery, Lihi; Tassa, Tamir; Yanai, Avishay et al.
CCS 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 2399-2401 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security).

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