Breaching the privacy of Israel’s paper ballot voting system

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Abstract

An election is a process through which citizens in liberal democracies select their governing bodies, usually through voting. For elections to be truly honest, people must be able to vote freely without being subject to coercion; that is why voting is usually done in a private manner. In this paper we analyze the security offered by a paper-ballot voting system that is used in Israel, as well as several other countries around the world. We provide an algorithm which, based on publicly-available information, breaks the privacy of the voters participating in such elections. Simulations based on real data collected in Israel show that our algorithm performs well, and can correctly recover the vote of up to 96% of the voters.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationElectronic Voting - 1st International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2016, Proceedings
Subtitle of host publicationE-VOTE-ID 2016
EditorsVanessa Teague, Melanie Volkamer, Josh Benaloh, P.Y.A. Ryan, Jordi Barrat, Nicole Goodman, Robert Krimmer, Peter Y. A. Ryan
Place of PublicationSwitzerland
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages108-124
Number of pages17
Volume10141
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-52240-1
ISBN (Print)9783319522395, 978-3-319-52239-5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2017
Event1st International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2016 - Bregenz, Austria
Duration: 18 Oct 201621 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10141 LNCS

Conference

Conference1st International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2016
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityBregenz
Period18/10/1621/10/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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