[Resource Topic] 2008/059: Buying random votes is as hard as buying no-votes

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Title:
Buying random votes is as hard as buying no-votes

Authors: Stefan Popoveniuc, Jonathan Stanton

Abstract:

In voting systems where a mark in a fixed position may mean a vote for Alice on a ballot,and a vote for Bob on another ballot, an attacker may coerce voters to put their mark at a certain position, enforcing effectively a random vote. This attack is meaningful if the voting system allows to take receipts with them and/or posts them to a bulletin board. The coercer may also ask for a blank receipt. We analyze this kind of attack and prove that it requires the same effort as a comparable attack would require against any voting system, even one without receipts.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/059

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