Privacy Preserving Voting: With the Help of John Napier’s Logs
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3 min readNov 10, 2019
In many elections we need to count votes, but preserve the privacy of the voters. With additive homomorphic encryption we can create a voting system where we can count encrypted votes and determine the total votes cast for each party. Let’s say there are voters in Scotland and Ireland, and they have the following votes: