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" The registrar acts honestly.
" Each voter has an ID with a public - private key pair.
" The registrar can securely authorize the voter and his\her eligibility to vote.
" Voter can easily connect to legitimate entities.
" At least one honest teller is available.
4.1.3 Setup
First, the registrar publishes a list of participating candidates on the public bulletin
board. At the same time the registrar generates a set of voting tokens using a pseudo-
random number generator (PRNG) with a secret seed.
Second, the election officials publish their public key and a list of authorized
tellers. Tellers can be the representatives of the participating candidates, independent
entities or state authorities, whereas election officials represent the state
representatives or the election assistance committee (EAC) (Fig. 4.1).
4.1.4 Voting
A check-in phase from a classical voting scheme is represented by authorization
procedure. A voter connects to the registrar to verify his identity. The registrar initiates
an authorization protocol. In the section 4.2, an example of such protocol is presented.
It uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify the voter identity, but the actual implementations
may use any other method that can provide a secure authorization. If the voter is
successfully authorized, the registrar randomly assigns one of previously generated35
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Yestekov, Yernat. Design and Analysis of Novel Verifiable Voting Schemes, thesis, December 2013; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407785/m1/40/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .