ELECTRONIC ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM

摘要

A digital voting method for a computer system having a voting booth system, a validator system, and a bulletin board system, where the validator system has access to certificates of authorized voters, includes generating using the voting booth system, a vote; blinding/signing the vote using a signature of the voter; sending the blinded/signed vote to the validator; verifying the voter's signature; checking that the voter is authorized, and checking whether the voter has received a validator signature, wherein if not the validator signs the blinded vote; sending the validator signature back to the voting booth system; unblinding the signature; verifying the validator signature, and if correct encrypting the vote along with the validator signature using a tallier's public key; encrypting the vote using a public key to provide a dual-encrypted vote displayable to the voter; transferring the dual-encrypted vote to the bulletin board; and if the voter is authorized publishing the dual-encrypted vote.