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Coercion-Resistant Electronic Elections with Write-In Candidates
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Carmen Kempka, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
It is often argued in the e-voting community that in the presence of write-in candidates, forced abstention attacks are always possible. Therefore, write-in candidates are often excluded in existing definitions of coercion-resistance arguing that those definitions cannot be achieved by write-in supporting schemes. This is only true if the tally is made public directly. Coercion-resistance may well be achieved if only a fuzzy version of the tally is published. This paper provides a formalization of fuzzy tally representations which enables definitions for coercion-resistance to take into account write-in candidates without being weakened. We also show how the cryptographic voting scheme Bingo Voting can be applied to write-in candidates with respect to this formalization, providing what we believe to be the first evoting scheme that prevents forced abstention while allowing for write-in candidates. We then give a general construction of coercion-resistant schemes that provide a verifiable fuzzy tally representation from mix-based and homomorphic election schemes with trusted authority.
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title = {{Coercion-Resistant} Electronic Elections with {Write-In} Candidates},
booktitle = {2012 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE 12)},
year = {2012},
address = {Bellevue, WA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/evtwote12/workshop-program/presentation/kempka},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug
}
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