Secure Electronic Voting

Abstract

Voting is an essential part of any government. Voting in a general election is the way citizens of a nation express their opinion in selecting the best candidate to lead them. This concept of e-voting was introduced by Chaum in the early 1980s and since then there have been a lot of work done in this area. Electronic voting requires a very high level of security, much higher than e-commerce. In this thesis the discussion would be start from the security requirements of an electronic voting schema. Then discuss the Fujioka, Okamoto and Ohta’s scheme (FOO scheme) and other scheme and perform a security analysis of these schemes against the security requirement of an e-voting scheme to show their limitations. The traditional voting systems have powerful registration way and verify the eligibility and this feature used to give the eligible citizens unique token to access our system and cast their ballot. And this is only physical process in our system. Finally, make a security analysis of our schema and show how not only improve on the limitations of the FOO schema voting schema but also satisfy all the security requirements of an electronic voting schema that has been discussed.