A Linked-List Approach to Cryptographically Secure Elections Using Instant Runoff Voting

Numerous methods have been proposed to conduct cryptographically secure elections. Most of these protocols focus on 1-out-of- n voting schemes. Few protocols have been devised for preferential voting systems, in which voters provide a list of rankings of the candidates, and many of those treat ballots as if they were ballots in a 1-out-of- n voting scheme. We propose a linked-list-based scheme that provides improved privacy over current schemes, hiding voter preferences that should not be revealed. For large lists of candidates we achieve improved asymptotic performance.