E-Voting: Blockchain Based Voting For Secure Vote Casting

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology, 2021

Increasingly digital technology in the present helped many people lives. Unlike the electoral system, there are many conventional uses of paper in its implementation. The aspect of security and transparency is a threat from still widespread election with the conventional system (offline). General elections still use a centralized system, there is one organization that manages it. Some of the problems that can occur in traditional electoral systems is with an organization that has full control over the database and system, it is possible to tamper with the database of considerable opportunities. Blockchain technology is one of solutions, because it embraces a decentralized system and the entire database are owned by many users. Blockchain itself has been used in the Bitcoin system known as the decentralized Bank system. By adopting blockchain in the distribution of databases on e-voting systems can reduce one of the cheating sources of database manipulation. This research discusses the recording of voting result using blockchain algorithm from every place of election. Unlike Bitcoin with its Proof of Work, this thesis proposed a method based on a predetermined turn on the system for each node in the built of blockchain

Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, 2020

E lections in a Western democracy are a very important case, but vast parts of citizens across the globe have no confidence in their democratic systems, this is a massive problem for democracy. Also the biggest economies in the world, such as India, the United States and Japan, are also struggling from a faulty democratic structure. Poll fraud, the theft of the EVM (electronic voting machine), the bribery of polls and the seizure of polling stations are the main problems with the new electoral method. In this research, we are researching the issues with the voting processes and attempting to develop the e-voting model that can fix certain issues. This research also attempts to analyze the use of blockchain to incorporate automated online voting systems as a software. The paper segment would illustrate several of the common blockchain systems that provide blockchain as a utility and related electronic e-voting mechanism that is focused on blockchain that fixes all shortcomings respec...

2020

Voting is a very important issue that can be beneficial in terms of choosing the right leader in an election. A good leader can bring prosperity to a country and also can lead the country in the right direction every time. However, elections are surrounded by ballot forgery, coercion, and multiple voting issues. Moreover, while giving votes, a person has to wait in a long queue and it is a very time-consuming process. Blockchain is a distributed database in which data are shared with the participant of the node and each participant holds the same copy of the data. Blockchain has properties like transparency, pseudonymity, and data integrity. In this paper, a fully decentralized e-voting system based on blockchain technology is proposed. This protocol utilizes smart contracts in the e-voting system to deal with security issues, accuracy, and voters’ privacy during the vote. The protocol results in a transparent, non-editable, and independently verifiable procedure. The protocol disca...

International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET), 2022

Voting is a primary right of every citizen living in a country. Traditional methods used for voting includes paper ballot system, EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines), etc. which are still followed and trusted by every voter or citizen blindly. These voting systems can have ambiguity as the data is maintained under a centralized environment whether it is counting the paper ballots or storing the vote caste on a computer server. This use of a centralized database for the voting system has some security issues such as Data modification through the third party in the network due to the use of the central database system as well as the result of the voting is not shown in real-time, or manipulation with the data which can hamper the result and thus have an impact on not only system integrity but also lose faith in democracy, government, nation, etc. The voting methods used in an election should be legal, accurate, safe, and convenient.

IRJET, 2022

The project's main purpose is to establish an effective e-voting mechanism by leveraging blockchain's capabilities, such as cryptographic foundations and transparency. However, there are still barriers to wider adoption of such systems, especially in terms of strengthening their resilience. The old traditional technique, which relies on a centralised infrastructure, has security and transparency issues. Some of the issues with traditional election systems include a lack of complete control over an organization's database and system, as well as the possibility of tampering with the database. Blockchain technology is based on a decentralized system, with multiple users accessing the same database. Blockchain technology creates a network structure data with built-in security features. It is built on the encryption, decentralization, and consensus principles, which ensure transaction confidence. Participants in the network each have their own private keys, which are associated with the transactions they conduct and serve as a personal digital signature. The project's main purpose is to allow voters to vote in the most secure and transparent way possible from anywhere on the planet.

International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 2018

The Secure Electronic Voting System using Blockchain Technology is ensured to make the current voting process to take place in an honest, accurate and highly secure way. This system stores the details of the voters and votes in two separate blockchains, which provides transparency into election results by allowing voters to independently audit the ballot box while protecting each voter's right to privacy. All the details of the voters get stored into one Blockchain, and this guarantees greater security by providing a PIN confirmed before the vote is taken into consideration. By casting votes as transactions, we can create another blockchain which keeps track of the tallies of the votes. This way, everyone can count the votes themselves, they can verify that no votes were changed or removed, and no illegitimate votes were added and as a result, is made public everyone can agree upon the final count. This system is only taking the current process of voting in an election and bringing that process entirely online, in an attempt to make it highly secure and also more accessible by allowing the voter to vote at his/her location and also reducing the effort put by staff members.

Jurnal Transformatika

The increasing of digital technology today has helped many people to fulfill their needs. But the election system, still conventionally using paper in its implementation. Elections in general still use a centralized system, where there is an organization that manages it. Some of the problems that may occur in traditional electoral systems are that there are organizations that have full control over the database and system, so the possibility of hacking the database is quite a big opportunity.Blockchain innovation is one arrangement that can be utilized in light of the fact that it has a decentralized framework and the whole database is duplicated by all clients. Blockchain itself has been used by Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptocurrency which is known as a decentralized system. By using the blockchain in database recording on an e-voting system can reduce one source of fraud that is database manipulation. This study discusses the recording of voting data using blockchain technology. The ...

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2019

The transparency of the block-chain allows more auditing and considerate of elections. These attributes are particular of the necessities of a voting system. These features derive from decentralized network, and can bring additional democratic processes to elections, particularly to direct election systems. For e-voting to develop further open, transparent, and independently auditable, a possible resolution would be base it on blockchain technology. In this research work to proposed technique for voting system using blockchain. The blockchain will be publicly provable and distributed in a method that no one will be intelligent to corrupt it. In this research work proposed a blockchain-based model with Consensus Protocol and SHA256 hash algorithm related with the priorities of the ballot-privacy, veri?ability, suitability, extensiveness, uniqueness, sturdiness, and coercion- resistance.

International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET), 2022

Developing a protected electronic voting system that gives the decency and security of a current voting system, while providing the accuracy and flexibility offered by electronic systems, has been a test for quite a while. Use of blockchain as an assist to actualize disseminated digital balloting structures is accessed. At the present, neither civilians nor elected leaders have favoured conventional ballots. Elections are surrounded via way of means of vote falsification, bribery and different vote casting problems paper and polling shape balloting a ballot system, the checking of vote's takes hours and the number of the time days and hardly ever any activities reduce to rubble the effects through distinctive feature of human or machine. There needs to be an awesome function of current technology to improve the prevailing system. Blunder, which brings about the process taking much more. Blockchain innovation offers a fact in which that character flaw is eliminated from the situation and votes are checked proper away. Blockchain generation is the only one that handles the real vote. We use the stable hash set of rules for resolving this trouble and attempted to convey an answer via using this booming generation. The system based on blockchain will be safe, trustworthy, and private. It will help to realize the general remember of the applicants who participated and its capabilities inside the equal manner as people's religion of their governments does. The citizens and political selection executives can get sizable benefits from the voting poll programming application. And yet, e-vote casting a poll gives large risks to political race safety and honesty and modifications the concept of political selection straightforwardness and investigation. E-Voting has a Relatively bit of freedom; at the cease of the day, Relative Advantage is degree while an improvement is regarded as advanced to the past one; Since, e-Voting is advanced to the guide vote casting system.

International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research, 2020

Blockchain is cutting-edge technology and it has been gaining popularity for cryptocurrency and financial transactions. The transaction process is maintained by the blockchain, which can be used to verify the reliability of the transactional contract. The main effort in this study is the significant accessibility of block-chain based on other technologies including the electronic voting (e-voting) system. In particular, the traditional e-voting system has various limitations and challenges for a very long time. For building a secure e-voting system we have proposed a blockchain-based distributed application that offers fairness, transparency, and flexibility than the existing system. The paper presents a novel secured distributed database of the voter’s information, and voter information will be deposited against their private key and digital signature in the central database. Finally, the block-chain based application allows solid robustness, privacy, and transparency which improves the system reliability, secure and reductions the expenditure of hosting a countrywide election.

mantech publications, 2023

In a democratic country like India (which is the largest democracy in the world), voting plays a significant role in selecting government officials and showing our opinion on how the governing body to be formed. Blockchain platforms are already available, and many companies have already begun applying blockchains to their business. It is used in industry, but it can also be applied as a service and make voting more accessible. Online voting is an alternative to the old paper ballot system and the currently popular electronic voting machines (EVM). An electronic voting portal should offer security and integrity and the transparency of votes and voters' privacy. Therefore, NRIs and adult internet users can cast their ballots in a matter of seconds despite their location on the day of the election. This will be easy and more secure. In the current system, there's a high risk of false votes and damage to property. People don't want to stand in enormous queues and wait for a long time. Also, people who conduct the election have to follow a completely different procedure for voting, which takes more time, and there's no transparency. The paper also presents the state of the art of some blockchain frameworks for e-voting. This paper presents a literature review of the techniques used to tackle voting challenges.

International Journal of New Practices in Management and Engineering, 2022

Voting is arguably the most important as well as elementary right in democracy that has existed for the past hundreds of years; it has taken place in the context of a large- and small-scale community. The process transitioned from paper ballots to electronic voting machines (EVM) in the late 20th century, but even with all the advancement, transparency in the election process remained the same. Blockchain technology came in existence in 2008 with the introduction of Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto, and in the last decade we saw enormous growth in development and execution of this technology in various fields e-voting is one of them, blockchain-based e-voting system has potential to improve the election process if utilized to its potential. Blockchain can eliminate the need to print ballot paper as it is secure, immutable and convenient to voters and can make elections more transparent.

An electronic voting system that uses blockchain technology completes the stage of establishing a secure and transparent environment for decisions where voters will actually want to vote only once and the vote will not be interrupted. The operation of the block chain will ensure that the votes are kept in line with them and that the situation is not deceived by any outsider. Protected electronic voting structures use a block chain which is a separate, distributed and tracking transaction record that follows peer-to-peer transactions. Each vote given will be considered a role as one job. These votes will be counted and the results will be reported immediately. Voting is a very important and important event organized in all countries by secret ballot or by ballot. Such processes have many drawbacks such as vote disruption, low turnout and so on. To overcome all this, we will introduce a series of voting programs.

Ymer, 2022

Electronic voting or E-voting, is the process by which votes can be cast through electronic means, such as an Electronic Voting Machine or voter's personal device. This study aims to create a reasonably secure and hassle-free system through which votes can be cast by users through their phones with relative ease as compared to traditional means. Voting takes place through an app on the device, in which the user signs in with their ID and PIN. This lets the user establish secure means of communication with the server by exchanging encryption keys and authorization tokens, which in turn lets the user and server authenticate secure using various factors of authentication, such as a Time-based OTP system, to verify the user's identity and let the cast their vote securely onto the server's private blockchain. On the server side there will be "nodes" and an "owner" server that share a private blockchain, which handle counting the votes, authentication, user creation and managing the voting system and its configuration. After all the authentication is done, the user can cast their vote in the final part of the process. This will be verified using a token generated separately on both client and server side. If it matches then the user will get an appropriate message confirming their vote being cast, and upon failure the user can contact the appropriate authority conducting the poll for further action.

Journal of the Institute of Engineering

National elections are a big deal which has a major role in the development and progress of a country. The security of an election is in fact the matter of national security. Current voting systems in the context of Nepal and other parts of the world are still traditional and insecure. From the dawn of democracy, elections are still based on pen and papers. While there are new electronic voting machines, these systems have a high risk of rigging and are prone to failure, crashes, and attacks from intruders. The stated problems can be addressed through the implementation of new technology namely Blockchain for a transparent and reliable voting process. A blockchain based voting platform has been built to make the voting process digital, secure, reliable and intuitive. The votes casted by voters are stored in the blockchain, thus making it immutable and secure. The system can be scaled based on the requirements of an election. Voters can login to the system with the help of encrypt...