Seminar: Wes Peterson and Edo Biagioni, "Practical Distributed Voter-Verifiable Secret Ballot System" (4/23/2009)

In this paper we propose an end-to-end voter-verifiable system, which is more transparent than existing solutions. Its distributed nature permits its use both for supervised voting at a polling place and for online remote voting. We use Chaum’s blind signatures to ensure voter anonymity. In particular, voters can verify that their votes are recorded exactly as cast, and all ballots can be made public so that anyone can verify the election results. We further address key security issues such as server corruption in the proposed system. The case is made that this can be the basis of a practical voting system.  (Presented by Wes Peterson and Edo Biagioni)