Blind proxy voting
This addresses the challenge of secure remote voting in elections, though it appears incremental as an amendment to existing vote collection methods.
The paper tackles the problem of enabling secure absentee voting by proposing a secret ballot mechanism where absent voters can vote through a proxy blinded to ballot content, using unique hidden identification numbers and split ballot submission to ensure anonymity and integrity.
A secret ballot mechanism that enables voting in absence is proposed. It amends standard vote collection methods that use ballot box as anonymizer, adding the option for absent voters to vote by a proxy blinded to the content of the ballot paper. Votes are cast under unique and hidden identification numbers generated solely for the purpose of that election. Voters prepare their ballot papers from scratch and submit them to the tallying authority in two parts via separate routes, each part being meaningless without the other.