# Blind proxy voting

## TL;DR

This paper proposes a secret proxy voting system that allows absent voters to cast anonymous ballots through blinded proxies, enhancing privacy and security in remote voting scenarios.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel proxy voting method that ensures ballot secrecy by splitting votes into two parts and using blinded proxies, improving upon standard ballot box techniques.

## Key findings

- Votes are securely split into two parts for anonymity.
- Voters create ballots from scratch for each election.
- The system maintains ballot secrecy through unique identifiers.

## Abstract

A secret ballot mechanism that enables voting in absence is proposed. It amends standard vote collection methods that use ballot box as anonymizer, adding the option for absent voters to vote by a proxy blinded to the content of the ballot paper. Votes are cast under unique and hidden identification numbers generated solely for the purpose of that election. Voters prepare their ballot papers from scratch and submit them to the tallying authority in two parts via separate routes, each part being meaningless without the other.