An anonymous voting system based on homomorphic encryption

Abstract

In this paper we present an electronic voting system based on Homomorphic encryption to ensure anonymity, privacy, and reliability in the voting. Homomorphic encryption is a subset of privacy homomorphism. It is capable of computing the encrypted data directly and also encrypting the result of the operation automatically. For this reason it has a wide range of applications including secure multi-party computation, database encryption, electronic voting, etc. In this paper, we make use of the homomorphic encryption mechanism to design and implement an electronic voting system that supports the separation of privileges among voters, tellers, and announcers. Our experimental results show the system not only ensures anonymity in voting but also presents cheating during the counting process.