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BBB-Voting: Self-Tallying End-to-End Verifiable 1-out-of-k Blockchain-Based Boardroom Voting
- E-Voting
- Privacy,
- Bulletin Board,
- Secret Ballot,
- Smart Contracts,
- Multi-party Computation,
- Zero-knowledge Proof,
- Votes Cast,
- Single Transaction,
- Public Blockchain,
Voting is a means to agree on a collective decision based on choices available
(e.g., candidates) where participants (voters) agree to abide by their outcome.
To improve trust in voting, decentralized solutions based on a blockchain can be
employed. A blockchain ensures that all entities in the voting system have the
same view of the actions made by others due to the immutable log. Existing
blockchain-based boardroom voting implementation called Open Voting Network (OVN)
supports only two candidates. We present a blockchain-based approach for
decentralized 1-out-of-k voting and provide a cost-optimized implementation using
Ethereum. We resolve the problem of stalling participants by a fault recovery
protocol.Finally, we compare our implementation with OVN and show that our work
achieves comparable costs in terms of gas consumption.
@inproceedings{BUT185109,
author="HOMOLIAK, I. and LI, Z. and SZALACHOWSKI, P.",
title="BBB-Voting: Self-Tallying End-to-End Verifiable 1-out-of-k Blockchain-Based Boardroom Voting",
booktitle="2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain)",
year="2023",
pages="297--306",
publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
address="Hainan",
doi="10.1109/Blockchain60715.2023.00054",
isbn="979-8-3503-1929-3",
url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10411494"
}