Distributed quantum election scheme

TL;DR

This paper introduces a distributed quantum election scheme that enhances privacy and security by preventing malicious administrators from tracing ballots, even in noisy quantum channels.

Contribution

It proposes a novel distributed anonymous quantum key distribution method and constructs a quantum election scheme resilient to malicious acts post-election.

Findings

Resists malicious acts of administrators and counters after election

Operates effectively in lossy and noisy quantum channels

Ensures voter privacy and ballot security

Abstract

In an electronic voting protocol, a distributed scheme can be used for forbidding the malicious acts of the voting administrator and the counter during the election, but it cannot prevent them from collaborating to trace the ballots and destroy their privacy after the election. We present a distributed anonymous quantum key distribution scheme and further construct a distributed quantum election scheme with a voting administrator made up of more than one part. This quantum election scheme can resist the malicious acts of the voting administrator and the counter after the election and can work in a system with lossy and noisy quantum channels.