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The Proposal of Giving Two Receipts for Voters to Increase the Security of Electronic Voting

Authors

Abbas Akkasi1, Ali Khaleghi2, Mohammad Jafarabad1, Hossein Karimi1, Mohammad Bagher Demideh1 and Roghayeh Najjari Alamuti2, 1Islamic Azad University, Iran, 2Imam Khomeini International University, Iran

Abstract

Holding an election with aim of selecting only one person or approval / rejection of a state law, is a special kind of election which every few years in the different countries going to happen. Given the pervasiveness of this election, we must take special measures to provide high security for the referendum. Using two receipts for each voter which one is named barcode receipt, a secret indicator of vote and another is named key receipt that is a key to acknowledged the voters information box, including: voter’s National Code, the candidate code which is voted by this voter, code of election station and barcode information. In this paper is proposed to enable people and social networks using data on bar code’s receipts without Intrusion into the privacy of other voters, so they will put together their personal information from monitoring the election process on a social network which can help to prevent any violation in election. The security of the proposed scheme is based on the turnout in recount of votes.

Keywords

Election Transparency, Electronic Referendum, Barcode Receipt

Full Text  Volume 4, Number 12