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Volume 9 | Issue 1 | Year 2019 | Article Id. IJCOT-V9I1P301 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22492593/IJCOT-V9I1P301

A Double-Registration Based Algorithm for Secure Elections

Yaser M. Asem

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Yaser M. Asem, "A Double-Registration Based Algorithm for Secure Elections," International Journal of Computer & Organization Trends (IJCOT), vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-8, 2019. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22492593/IJCOT-V9I1P301

Abstract

Fair and democratic elections can change our life to the better. However, paper based elections suffer from many security breaches and need to be fixed. This paper proposes a secure electronic voting scheme that uses biometric measures for voters` authentications. In the proposed scheme, voters have to register twice for voters` anonymity and in order to prevent ballot box stuffing by the voters` authenticator. The proposed method uses three voting entities in each stage for registration, authentication, and vote tallying. The security analysis for the proposed electronic voting method shows that the characteristics of the ideal e-voting scheme are satisfied in the proposed method except for verifiability.

Keywords

e-voting, electronic elections, privacy, secure elections, democracy.

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