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Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion.

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Can Elgamal be made additively homomorphic and how could it be used for E-voting?

See this answer for how to build a voting scheme from it (or this paper for the full description). … Dispite this, many voting schemes still use exponential Elgamal because it is faster, easier to do distributed key generation, and not patented. …
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Approach towards anonymous e-voting

Using exponential Elgamal as the encryption function, Define the list of candidates: e.g., Alice, Bob, Carol Voters submit an encryption of their vote: e.g., to voter for Alice: $v=\langle\mathsf{En …
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Existing works on pre-computing ElGamal ephermal keys

There is a worry that if a voting machine chooses the randomness, they could try a few values until the ciphertext comes out with a certain pattern (e.g., the 5th bit is a 0 if the vote is for Alice and … A more thorough approach is considered in On Subliminal Channels in Encrypt-on-Cast Voting Systems . If you insist on your approach, note that you never need to use $c_1$ at all. …
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