On EU Voting Results Day … Privacy Preserving Voting

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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:

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
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Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.