Features
This serves as a list of features included within the ElectionGuard reference implementations.
🛡 End-to-End Verifiability
ElectionGuard uses end-to-end verifiable election techniques to enable individual voters to check crucial ingredients of election results.
🔐 Ballot Encryption
Ballot encryption uses ElGamal encryption to securely encrypt a voter's plaintext ballot. These ballots are then homomorphically added to maintain encryption while creating an aggregate ballot or tally.
✅ Ballot Confirmation
Ballot confirmation allows voters to confirm their ballots were counted. Encrypted ballots provide a ballot code that can be used to verify a vote was submitted and whether it was cast or spoiled.
📝 Challenge Ballots
To allow for challenging the system, a spoiled ballot can be submitted for decryption along with the tally. Post election, this allows a voter to both confirm their ballot was not included in the tally and view the plaintext decryption of said ballot.
🤏 Compact Ballots
Compact ballots assist with smaller machines and ballot encryption by providing a compact format for ballots. This format can be expanded to include all verifiable proofs.
🔑 Key Ceremony
The key ceremony is provided as a toolset to be perform a ceremony between multiple guardians to generate an encryption key. This key can then be used to encrypt the ballots.
🔓 Tally Ceremony
The tally ceremony is provided as a toolset to perform a ceremony between multiple guardians to decrypt the tally or election results from an election. This includes quorum decryption when guardians from the key ceremony may be missing.