Semi-Quantum Voting Protocol

Aiming at the problem that the existing voting protocols have high requirements for quantum devices, we propose a semi-quantum voting protocol based on secure direct communication in this paper. In our protocol, the voters need only classical capabilities to participate in the voting process. Before the voting process begins, the scrutineer verifies the identities of the voters so as to ensure the legitimacy of users using semi-quantum secure direct communication channels. Our protocol satisfies the general security requirements of quantum voting protocols and can resist any known quantum attacks. In addition, owing that the voters in our protocol do not need high quantum capabilities, our protocol is more practical than the existing voting protocols.