US Patent 10979225 Secure and anonymous electronic polling

Disclosed are various embodiments for secure and anonymized electronic voting. A homomorphically encrypted vote and a digital signature of the homomorphically encrypted vote are received from a client device. Then, the digital signature of the homomorphically encrypted vote is validated. Next, the homomorphically encrypted vote is stored in a data store in response to validating the digital signature of the homomorphically encrypted vote. Finally, the homomorphically encrypted vote is recorded in a publicly available distributed ledger.