Quantum Anonymous Voting Protocol with the Privacy Protection of the Candidate

In this paper, we propose a new quantum anonymous voting protocol, which protects the privacy of not only the voting content of the voters, but also the number of the votes received by the candidate. Compared with previous protocols, our protocol considers the privacy of the candidate, so it can meet higher secure requirements. In addition, this protocol provides identity authentication for the voters, which ensures that only the legal voters can vote.