OpenVoting: Recoverability from Failures in Dual Voting

Prashant Agrawal; Kabir Tomer; Abhinav Nakarmi; Mahabir Prasad Jhanwar; Subodh Sharma; Subhashis Banerjee

Paper 2023/1393

OpenVoting: Recoverability from Failures in Dual Voting

Prashant Agrawal, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Kabir Tomer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Abhinav Nakarmi, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Ashoka University

Mahabir Prasad Jhanwar, Ashoka University

Subodh Sharma, IIT Delhi

Subhashis Banerjee, Ashoka University, IIT Delhi

Abstract

In this paper we address the problem of recovery from failures without re-running entire elections when elections fail to verify. We consider the setting of $\textit{dual voting}$ protocols, where the cryptographic guarantees of end-to-end verifiable voting (E2E-V) are combined with the simplicity of audit using voter-verified paper records (VVPR). We first consider the design requirements of such a system and then suggest a protocol called $\textit{OpenVoting}$, which identifies a verifiable subset of error-free votes consistent with the VVPRs, and the polling booths corresponding to the votes that fail to verify with possible reasons for the failures.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Applications
Publication info: Published elsewhere. EVOTE-ID 2023
Keywords: electronic voting recoverability dual voting
Contact author(s): prashant @ cse iitd ac in
ktomer2 @ illinois edu
nakarmi @ umich edu
mahavir jhawar @ ashoka edu in
svs @ cse iitd ac in
suban @ ashoka edu in
History: 2023-09-18: approved; 2023-09-18: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2023/1393
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1393,
      author = {Prashant Agrawal and Kabir Tomer and Abhinav Nakarmi and Mahabir Prasad Jhanwar and Subodh Sharma and Subhashis Banerjee},
      title = {{OpenVoting}: Recoverability from Failures in Dual Voting},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/1393},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1393}
}