Secure and Decentralized Anonymous E-Voting Scheme

Abstract

Secure electronic voting (e-voting) schemes are an imperative topic in today's society as we transition to an increasingly online world. Conventional e-voting processes are centralized that heavily rely on a central aggregator which can raise privacy concerns. Hence, this paper proposes a novel decentralized e-voting scheme that uses the BGW protocol, secure multi-party computation (MPC), and secret sharing as part of a distributed computation mechanism among all the voters to generate a fair and safe e-voting system. Additionally, the proposed scheme provides fully decentralized vote counting, ensures anonymity to further enhance the security of the protocol, and delivers the results of the vote to users. The security of the proposed e-voting scheme is evaluated using prominent security theorems, where the analysis shows that the scheme satisfies several security attributes of secure e-voting, and is more secure and reliable than conventional e-voting protocols.