Blockchain Based E-Voting

2021

Electronic Voting System has been implemented in the form of Electronic Voting Machine since last few decades with benefits over paper-based systems for their increased efficiency and reduced error rate. However, there remains challenges to achieve wide spread adoption of such systems especially with respect to improving their resilience against attacks such as malicious attacks,EVM hack which leads to loss of data andvote count tampering. Blockchain is a disruptive technology of current era that promises to improve the overall resilience of e-voting systems and allows voter to vote from any constituency. Several researches done on blockchain have proved that its properties such as immutability of information, decentralization and high scalability can overcome the downsides of current electoral systems.The project work attempts to implement blockchain technology concepts to leverage the benefits of both for the better implementation of a digital voting system.

International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 2023

The voting system is the medium of selecting the appropriate person for any type of election. In the traditional voting system, ballot paper was used to collect the vote from the voters. The voters have to go to the Centre to give their votes and many people are required to work as voting agents in the Centre to organize and manage the election. So, the traditional voting system required many types of costs to organize an election. Many other problems were raised in the traditional voting system like hijacking the voting machine, giving the vote of another person, manipulating voting data, etc. Many of these problems are solved by using EVM (Electronic Voting Machine). But the voters have to go to the voting center to provide their votes but the old-aged voters or the voters who are unable to walk are not able to provide their voted in this system. This problem can be solved by implementing a secure electronic or online based voting system. The Blockchain is a very popular technology now for storing data securely. The simple model of implementing a secure online based voting system by using blockchain technology has been shown in this paper which will be able to provide many facilities for all types of voters making the voting system more secure and faster.

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.

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...

International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research , 2021

A system with a porous electoral process will produce the wrong leadership. The quality of an election determines the quality of the selected leadership of a community, state, and nation at large. Over the years, different solutions ranging from the manual method to electronic methods have been proposed to address the various electoral malpractices associated with elections, however, the key issues of privacy, trust, and fairness in elections yet remain. In this research, we proposed an electronic voting system based on blockchain technology to address the identified issues of privacy, trust, and fairness. Smart contracts which kept track of votes in real-time and maintained the security of the electoral process were also proposed. The system was implemented on the Ethereum blockchain network, where Ganache was used to perform simulations of the voting process. We finally recommended that small-scale and medium-scale businesses could firstly adopt the system, after which, it could be implemented on a larger scale such as in national elections.

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.

ITM Web of Conferences

Election could be a important event during a trendy democracy however massive sections of society round the world don’t trust their election system that is major concern for the democracy. Even the world’s largest democracies like Republic of India, us, and Japan still suffer from a blemished legal system. Vote rigging, hacking of the EVM (Electronic vote machine), election manipulation, and booth capturing square measure the key problems within the current electoral system. during this system, we tend to square measure work the problems|the problems within the election vote systems and attempting to propose the E-voting model which might resolve these issues. The system can highlight a number of the popular blockchain frameworks that provide blockchain as a service and associated electronic E-voting system that is predicated on blockchain that addresses all limitations severally, it additionally preserve participant’s obscurity whereas still being hospitable public examination. Bui...

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.

In recent times, numerous accusations have been raised on the integrity of the EVMs used in the Indian elections. These accusations demand the need of a newer system that is in line with the present modern era and addresses these accusations. This new system must be an amalgamation of technology and trust, of modernity and tradition. It must be secure, auditable, and transparent and should reinforce the confidence of the voters in the democratic election process. Blockchain technology allows for development of a decentralized distributed open ledger. It offers features like immutability of data, integrity of data and resistance of data to modifications. We aim to use these features of Blockchain to build a voting machine that will solve existing issues with EVMs and will be sufficiently automated.

Voting is the most important process of any democracy being it "bi" or "multi" party form. Voting ensures that its representative maintains a healthy balance of social and political equity. In a mature democracy, voting by people offers their representation in the political system. The privacy of voters is a major concern in any voting during elections for their leaders along with their integrity of the vote. The blockchain being an immutable distributed ledger based on a consensus algorithm is the most agile form of E-voting. In this paper, we discuss some aspects of a smart contract named "VotingContract" and demonstrated its implementation.