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Quantum protocols for anonymous voting and surveying

J. A. Vaccaro, Joseph Spring, Anthony Chefles

abstract: We describe quantum protocols for voting and surveying. A key feature of our schemes is the use of entangled states to ensure that the votes are anonymous and to allow the votes to be tallied. The entanglement is distributed over separated sites; the physical inaccessibility of any one site is sufficient to guarantee the anonymity of the votes. The security of these protocols with respect to various kinds of attack is discussed. We also discuss classical schemes and show that our quantum voting protocol represents a N-fold reduction in computational complexity, where N is the number of voters.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0504161
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
8 pages. V2 includes the modifications made for the published version
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012333
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0504161
journal_ref:
Phys. Rev. A 75, 012333 (2007)
created:
2005-04-21
updated:
2007-06-03

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