Bingo Voting

Bingo voting is an electronic voting scheme for transparent, secure, end-to-end auditable elections. It was introduced in 2007 by Jens-Matthias Bohli, Jörn Müller-Quade, and Stefan Röhrich at the Institute of Cryptography and Security (IKS) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Random numbers are used to record votes. Central to the scheme is the use of trusted random number generating devices in the voting booths. A particular advantage are its paper receipts which, while not revealing how a vote was cast, and so inhibiting vote buying and intimidation, still allow voters to check that their vote was correctly counted.

No particular demands are placed on voters, and no ballot papers are used. One special requirement, however, to prevent fraudulent challenges to the election result, is the use of unforgeable paper for the receipts.

Read more about Bingo Voting:  Before The Poll, During The Poll, After The Poll, The Trusted Random Number Generator, Improvements, See Also

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