An Information-Theoretic Model of Voting Systems

Hosp, Benjamin; Vora, Poorvi

doi:10.4230/DagSemProc.07311.4

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An Information-Theoretic Model of Voting Systems

Authors Benjamin Hosp, Poorvi Vora

Part of: Volume: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7311
Part of: Series: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
Publication Date: 2008-01-15

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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.07311.4
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-12982

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Information-Theory
Elections
Measurement
Integrity
Privacy
Verifiability

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Abstract

We present an information-theoretic model of a voting system, consisting of (a) definitions of the desirable qualities of integrity, privacy and verifiability, and (b) quantitative measures of how close a system is to being perfect with respect to each of the qualities. We describe the well-known trade-off between integrity and privacy in this model, and defines a concept of weak privacy, which is traded off with system verifiability. This is an extension of a talk from WOTE 2006, and contains some new applications of the model and arguments for the model's applicability.

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Benjamin Hosp and Poorvi Vora. An Information-Theoretic Model of Voting Systems. In Frontiers of Electronic Voting. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7311, pp. 1-11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008) https://doi.org/10.4230/DagSemProc.07311.4

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Benjamin Hosp

Poorvi Vora

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