A Protocol for Secure Electronic Remote Voting

We have developed Distributed, Voter Verified, Secret Ballot Voting (DVVSB), a potentially remote voting system that allows a voter to directly verify that their votes are in the final database of tallied votes. DVVSB meets key requirements of voting systems, such as voter anonymity and prevention of various vote insertion attacks, e.g., voting more than once or voting for others. DVVSB is also resistant to malicious interferences including several common types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. We summarize how DVVSB allows voters to cast and verify anonymous ballots, then focus on the networking and distributed computing techniques used to meet these security goals.