BLOCK CHAIN TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRONIC VOTING

Abstract

Election is a way to choose the representatives through a fairness, integrity, and democratic rules. During the election, the voting system allows authorized voters to cast their vote for candidates. In essence, the voting system can directly influence several aspects that are political science, social science, and economics. Thus, the concept of the voting system must respond and rigorously considered before the election is held. The voting system begins evolving from paper voting, then E-voting and the latest will be I-voting. Concisely, E-voting is simply an electronic system, while I-voting is nothing but remote E-voting (internet accessible). E-voting is the most adopted worldwide and it is a tool that frequently represents democracy of the election. Therefore, most of the countries continue to research and improve the E-voting process. Eventually, the current voting system is however far from what it should deliver. Blockchain technology provides a decentralized architecture that distributes digital information synchronously among the P2P network without a central database. Because of technology advancement, Blockchain has represented a standard technology that to the challenges like “perfect online privacy” and Web 3.0 dApps. Hence, the study proposes Blockchain based Online Voting System (BOVS) to enhance the integrity, optimize the voting process, produce consistent voting results, and strengthen the transparency of the voting system. Finally, the research addressed the weaknesses of the current I-voting system and successfully applied Blockchain technology to resolve those weaknesses.