SvaVoting: A Novel Secret Sharing-Based Verifiable and Anonymous E-Voting Scheme in Blockchain Systems

E-Voting systems play a vital role in various communities, aiming to enhance the efficiency, transparency, and citizen engagement in elections. However, as technology advances, ensuring the security and reliability of e-voting systems becomes profound. While researchers have explored the integration of blockchain technology to improve e-voting systems, there still are technical challenges, particularly regarding voters’ privacy, ballots’ confidentiality, and system performance. To address these challenges, we propose SvaVoting, an innovative blockchain-based e-voting scheme. SvaVoting utilizes the Borda counting method and the identity-based ring signature based on symmetric primitives to anonymously verify the validity of the voter’s identity and ballot format. In addition, we introduce secret sharing and a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to conduct the final counting while preserving the privacy of the ballots. All users in the system can verify the results of CSP calculations, thereby meeting security goals such as correctness, unforgeability, anonymity and verifiability. The identity-based ring signature in our scheme provides 128-bit security, and even it can work in a quantum computing environment. Experimental results demonstrate that our solution significantly enhances the security and performance of e-voting systems, offering a practical path forward for future e-voting systems.