Enhancing the Protection of Information in Digital Voting Using Application of Block Chain Technology

Abstract

Electronic voting has evolved as a substitute for paper-based balloting in order to reduce redundancies and inconsistencies. In recent years, it has been found that paper-based balloting fails owing to security and privacy concerns, and it has been recommended that electronic balloting be used instead. To guarantee the security of the data, we devised and implemented an efficient hashing utilising SHA-256. The use of the block sealing idea aids in the adjustment of the block chain. The consortium block chain idea is utilised so that the block chain may only be accessed by authorised users/candidates and is maintained by the election commission. The architecture described in this article may give reliable polling technique results. The hashing technique (SHA-256), block generation, information collection, and final result declaration were the approaches used in this study. The block chain technique will be used to carry out all of the operations. The use of block chain in voting systems may improve information security and make maintaining sensitive data easier in the electronic voting process.