A Study on the Electronic Voting System using blind Signature for Anonymity

Development of IT has accelerated the establishment of electronic government, and convenience and efficiency have been enhanced by providing services of civil affairs and government and public offices to the people thru the internet. The electronic government service has been required to not only the service of civil affairs but also the electronic service of the voting system based on the democratic principle. Electronic voting system creates and manages data, so that it should not influence on the result of voting due to the interruption of third party or system error. Therefore, in order to study safe electronic voting system, the existing scheme of providing anonymity should be studied and anonymous and receipt-free system should be provided by utilizing the method of blind signature . Also, an eligible voter can know the result of voting by providing the paper receipt.