Electronic voting using confirmation numbers

This paper proposes a new electronic voting (e-voting) scheme that fulfills all the security requirements of e-voting. The key mechanism is the one that uses confirmation numbers involved in individual votes to make votes verifiable while disabling all entities including voters themselves to know the linkages between voters and their votes. Unlike complicated zero knowledge proof involved in many e-voting schemes, the confirmation numbers attain the verifiability requirement in a much more simple and intuitive way, then the scheme becomes scalable and practical.