Distributed Trust, a Blockchain Election Scheme

Larriba, Antonio M.; Cerdà i Cucó, Aleix; Sempere, José M.; López, Damián

doi:10.15388/20-INFOR440

Informatica

Distributed Trust, a Blockchain Election Scheme

Volume 32, Issue 2 (2021), pp. 321–355

Antonio M. Larriba Aleix Cerdà i Cucó José M. Sempere Damián López

https://doi.org/10.15388/20-INFOR440

Pub. online: 8 February 2021 Type: Research Article

Open Access

Received
1 May 2020

Accepted
1 December 2020

Published
8 February 2021

Abstract

Voting systems are as useful as people are willing to use them. Although many electronic election schemes have been proposed through the years, and some real case scenarios have been tested, people still do not trust electronic voting. Voting is not only about technological challenges but also about credibility, therefore, we propose a voting system focused on trust. We introduce political parties as active partners in the elections as a mechanism to encourage more traditional electors to participate. The system we propose here preserves elector’s privacy, it operates publicly through a blockchain and it is auditable by third parties.

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Biographies

Larriba Antonio M.

anlarflo@dsic.upv.es

A.M. Larriba is a pre-doctoral researcher at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), where he obtained his degree in computer science, in 2016, and a master’s degree in artificial intelligence, in 2017. Currently, he is working on obtaining his PhD in computer science. He was awarded a governmental grant for this purpose. His topics of interest include cryptography, artificial intelligence, and blockchain.

Cerdà i Cucó Aleix

alcercu@inf.upv.es

A. Cerdà i Cucó obtained his BSc in computer science at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), in 2020. He is currently working on the field of machine translation. His topics of interest include artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, and software-quality analysis.

Sempere José M.

jsempere@dsic.upv.es

J.M. Sempere is an associate professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), where he obtained a PhD in computer science, in 2002. He is a member of the International Society for Membrane Computing (IMCS) and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). He has published several scientific papers in international journals and he has coordinated several research projects. His scientific interests include cryptography, computer models, and the theory of computational complexity.

López Damián

dlopez@dsic.upv.es

D. López is an associate professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), where he obtained his PhD in computer science, in 2003. Currently, he is the academic coordinator of the Computation Section at the Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, and a member of the Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN). His research interests include cryptography, formal languages, and grammatical inference.

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