Digital Voting Process via Block Chain Technology

Electronic voting is growing in popularity in today's culture. It has the ability to reduce administrative expenses and boost participation in the electoral process. Voters can cast their ballots from any location with an Internet connection, doing away with the necessity for paper ballots and polling places. Regardless of their merits, online voting solutions are seen with skepticism due to the fact that they present novel security risks. Vote rigging on a massive scale is possible due to a single vulnerability. When used for elections, electronic voting systems must be reliable and secure. However, problems with computerized voting systems may slow their widespread adoption. Electronic voting systems are being developed using blockchain technology due to the end-to-end verification benefits it provides. Electronic voting systems that lack the distributed, non-repudiation, and security features of this technology are missing out. A summary of blockchain-based electronic voting methods is provided here. The primary purpose of this analysis was to look at where things stand with blockchain-based voting research and online voting systems, as well as any problems with foreseeing their future that may exist. This serves as both a conceptual overview of the planned blockchain-based electronic voting application and an introduction to the blockchain's core structure and properties as they pertain to electronic voting. Several of the problems that currently afflict election systems may be solvable with the help of blockchain technologies, it has been found. Yet, concerns about privacy and transaction speed frequently come up when discussing the use of blockchain technology in practical contexts. Secure remote voting is essential for a scalable blockchain-based electronic voting system, and fast transactions are necessary for widespread adoption

Design and Implementation of a Secure i-Voting System

There is concern ih many democracies about the declining rates in voter's turnout and more generally, the (perceived) t~end towards political apathy. The reason is attributed to lack of trust in the political/democratic proces.( One of the measures considered to encourage participation in the polity is to simplify the election procedure by introducing electronic voting, and in particular, Internet voting. It is expected that this will incrhase voter's convenience and voter's confidence in the accuracy of election results. Internet voting mett1zs the casting of a secure and secret electronic ballot that is transmitted to electoral officials using th'e Internet. Internet voting is a new way of implementing democracy and eliminating some of the .fallp.cies of paper ballot voting. This paper propose~ the development (~fa dynamic online voter registration system; provides a robust /-voting architectw'e; and designs and implements a secure Internet voting system based on Biometric features using filzge1print authentication mechanism. The system runs on platforms such as the personal computers, Op'eni:ting Systems (UNIX, and Windows XP), and Browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.). The ballots \vere formatted using HTML and ]avaScript, and audio sound integrated into it with the use of SWiSH max software. The server side is a java/Php application that provides access to MySQL database rzuzning dn an Apache web server. Security is incorpoiated into the system with the use of the N- Tier architecture inc01porating the Demilitarized Zone [DMZ). The system offers enhanced speed and efficiency, and it eliminates the "grey" area of voting, lwnian (!rror and bias. Further, it will allow for a broader spectrum ~f voters to exercise their rights anywh~re there is Internet access and at the voters' convenience. Furthermore, the system offered bimodal authentication mechanisms through the use of fingerprint and password, 'which helped a great deal to prevent multiple registrations l~{ voters. It also helps to increase the confidence of voters in the electoral process. In addition, the interest of the disabled, particularly, the sight impaired is taking into consideration through the provision of audio sound to aid them in the process of casting their votes

Vulnerability analysis of three remote voting methods

This article analyses three methods of remote voting in an uncontrolled environment: postal voting, internet voting and hybrid voting. It breaks down the voting process into different stages and compares their vulnerabilities considering criteria that must be respected in any democratic vote: confidentiality, anonymity, transparency, vote unicity and authenticity. Whether for safety or reliability, each vulnerability is quantified by three parameters: size, visibility and difficulty to achieve. The study concludes that the automatisation of treatments combined with the dematerialisation of the objects used during an election tends to substitute visible vulnerabilities of a lesser magnitude by invisible and widespread vulnerabilities.Comment: 15 page