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Quantum Protocol for Electronic Voting without Election Authorities
Phys. Rev. Applied 18, 014005 – Published 5 July, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.014005
Abstract
Electronic voting is a very useful but challenging internet-based protocol that despite many theoretical approaches and various implementations with different degrees of success, remains a contentious topic due to issues in reliability and security. Here we present a quantum protocol that exploits an untrusted source of multipartite entanglement to carry out an election without relying on election authorities, simultaneous broadcasting, or computational assumptions, and whose result is publicly verifiable. The level of security depends directly on the fidelity of the shared multipartite entangled quantum state, and the protocol can be readily implemented for a few voters with state-of-the-art photonic technology.
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