Anonymity in eVoting

Abstract

In a society where people cope and collaborate with others, it is a cliché to say they come up with different ideas. In order to syndicate toward one same goal, the best to follow is democracy in which majority would be satisfied. In the accomplishment of democracy ballots play an important role and ever since it has been attached to the way of life of human beings, the conduct has changed revolutionary in many ways from its original form. Varying from the raise of hands through many forms of writing techniques, the most recent innovation is electronic voting. There are several issues associated with electronic voting and one such issue is the anonymity, which means the privacy that the voters‟ identity should not be linked to their cast ballots. While maintaining the anonymity voters should also be able to verify their vote really counts in case of an audit. This project is an attempt to achieve anonymity while maintaining the voter verifiability and the outcome of this project is a verifiable web based software solution for anonymous electronic voting.