BBB-Voting: 1-out-of-k Blockchain-Based Boardroom Voting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09112v4
• Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 13:38:28 GMT
• Title: BBB-Voting: 1-out-of-k Blockchain-Based Boardroom Voting
• Authors: Sarad Venugopalan, Ivan Homoliak, Zengpeng Li, Pawel Szalachowski
• Abstract summary: We present BBB-Voting, an equivalent blockchain-based approach for decentralized voting such as Open Voting Network (OVN) BBB-Voting supports 1-out-of-$k$ choices and provides robustness that enables recovery from stalling participants. We show how BBB-Voting can be extended to support the number of participants limited only by the expenses paid by the authority and the computing power to obtain the tally.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Voting is a means to agree on a collective decision based on available choices (e.g., candidates), where participants agree to abide by their outcome. To improve some features of e-voting, decentralized blockchain-based solutions can be employed, where the blockchain represents a public bulletin board that in contrast to a centralized bulletin board provides extremely high availability, censorship resistance, and correct code execution. A blockchain ensures that all entities in the voting system have the same view of the actions made by others due to its immutability and append-only features. The existing remote blockchain-based boardroom voting solution called Open Voting Network (OVN) provides the privacy of votes, universal & End-to-End verifiability, and perfect ballot secrecy; however, it supports only two choices and lacks robustness enabling recovery from stalling participants. We present BBB-Voting, an equivalent blockchain-based approach for decentralized voting such as OVN, but in contrast to it, BBB-Voting supports 1-out-of-$k$ choices and provides robustness that enables recovery from stalling participants. We make a cost-optimized implementation using an Ethereum-based environment respecting Ethereum Enterprise Alliance standards, which we compare with OVN and show that our work decreases the costs for voters by 13.5% in normalized gas consumption. Finally, we show how BBB-Voting can be extended to support the number of participants limited only by the expenses paid by the authority and the computing power to obtain the tally.

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