Secure and Transparent Elections: Exploring Decentralized Electronic Voting on P2P Blockchain

Abstract

Voting is one of the methods used by humans to determine decisions in a case. Along with the development of technology, conventional voting also follows the transformation in the adaptation of the current digital era. There is an electronic version of this voting which is often called e-voting (electronic voting). Of course, the application of technology in voting will raise public opinion about concerns about maintaining network privacy and security in e-voting. Of course, security problems can be overcome with technology that is currently being utilized optimally in various fields of life, namely blockchain technology. In enhancing e-voting security, blockchain will be used in P2P networks. The application of the blockchain system in e-voting will produce a safe e-voting system so that it can reduce the percentage of forgery of votes in the e-voting system. Implementing a blockchain-based e-voting system will involve 3 elements, namely cryptography, software engineering theory, and voting theory. In realizing blockchain-based e-voting, several stages are needed. (1) vote counterfeiting is avoided by adjusting the voting recording model based on ledger technology, (2) in terms of authentication, this technology is equipped with elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) based user model design, (3) providing a model designed for voters to change their vote before the specified time limit. The integration of these three designs is an important requirement in the e-voting process, proving and verifying a blockchain-based e-voting system in a P2P network that has been designed on linux.