TY - GEN
T1 - Breaching the privacy of Israel’s paper ballot voting system
AU - Ashur, Tomer
AU - Dunkelman, Orr
AU - Talmon, Nimrod
N1 - Funding Information:
The first author was partially supported by the Research Fund KU Leuven, OT/13/071 and by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 644052 HECTOR and grant agreement No. H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014-643161 ECRYPT-NET. The second author was supported in part by the Israeli Science Foundation through grant No. 827/12 and by the Commission of the European Communities through the Horizon 2020 program under project number 645622 PQCRYPTO. The third author is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from I-CORE ALGO.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-52240-1_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-52240-1_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85011551365
SN - 9783319522395
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 108
EP - 124
BT - Electronic Voting - 1st International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2016, Proceedings
A2 - Teague, Vanessa
A2 - Volkamer, Melanie
A2 - Benaloh, Josh
A2 - Ryan, P.Y.A.
A2 - Barrat, Jordi
A2 - Goodman, Nicole
A2 - Krimmer, Robert
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2016
Y2 - 18 October 2016 through 21 October 2016
ER -