Blockchain Voting System Research Articles

Survey on Decentralized Democracy: Blockchain Voting System

Voting is a fundamental pillar of democracy, but traditional voting systems face numerous challenges, including concerns related to security, transparency, and accessibility. In recent years, blockchain technology has emerged as a promising solution to revolutionize the voting process. By leveraging the inherent characteristics of blockchain technology, a blockchain-based voting system can enhance the integrity and trustworthiness of the voting process. Blockchain-based voting systems offer several key features and benefits. One of the main advantages is the security and immutability of voter data, which makes it virtually impossible to tamper with or manipulate. Each vote is recorded as a transaction on the blockchain, creating a transparent and auditable ledger that can be accessed by all stakeholders. This eliminates the need for intermediaries such as government agencies or third-party voting providers, reducing the risk of interference and tampering. Another advantage of blockchain-based voting systems is increased accessibility. Remote and mobile voting can help improve voter turnout and participation, especially for individuals who may have difficulty accessing traditional polling stations. Moreover, blockchain technology can maintain the anonymity of voters while ensuring the verifiability of their choices, which guarantees the privacy of their decisions. Despite these benefits, challenges persist, including concerns about identity verification and cybersecurity. Addressing these issues is crucial for the widespread adoption of blockchain-based voting systems. In conclusion, a blockchain-based voting system has the potential to transform the way elections are conducted by providing a secure, efficient, and transparent platform that empowers citizens and strengthens the democratic process. As the technology continues to evolve, it is essential to address its limitations while harnessing its advantages to build a more robust and inclusive electoral system. Keywords: Blockchain, voting, election, decentralized, secure, transparency, immutability, privacy.

BLOCKCHAIN BASED E-VOTING SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION

People may express their views via voting in elections, which are an essential part of a democratic society. Because our democracy depends on free and fair elections, they must be conducted in a way that the public can feel confident in. Voting methods have seen a great deal of change in this context. Efforts to make the system more secure, verifiable, and open are driving this advancement. Blockchain technology is a potential new tool for the development of secure apps because of its strong cryptographic foundations. All transactions are recorded and distributed on the Blockchain, which has resembled a data structure from its inception. Data stored in a distributed decentralised database is protected against unauthorised manipulation, tampering, or alteration in any form. Voting is safe and simple with our decentralised, transparent, and secure method. It securely mines blocks and converts votes into transactions. For one thing, the ability to cast a vote from any place is one of the many perks of a block chain voting system. Using blockchain technology, the voting process may be made more secure, transparent, immutable,

Designing an E-Voting Framework Using Blockchain Technology

Blockchain technology provides a stable spot in electronic voting systems by providing a transparent platform for an election which prevents the failures faced by the traditional electronic voting systems and makes it a more accurate and secure platform for voting. However, little attention has been paid to the possible impacts of new technological disruptions on politics and the electoral systems. The main goal of this paper is to design a framework for electronic voting systems using Blockchain technology. To achieve this goal, the paper outlines these three objectives: (1) to explore and identify the challenges in existing voting systems, (2) to identify the methods that could enhance the security and privacy of the electoral voting systems using Blockchain technology, and (3) to design a framework for electronic voting systems that use Blockchain technology in order to address the flaws in current voting systems. A mixed approach is applied in this study to explore the opportunities and challenges of the Blockchain voting system, and design the framework accordingly.

Comparative Study of Blockchain Techniques in Electronic Voting System

Building an electronic voting system that fulfils the legal requirements, improves the security, and decreases the cost of hosting elections has been a difficult task. Blockchain technology offers a wide variety of solutions from which we can benefit from. The purpose of this report is to highlight our proposal to solve problems related to voting by using the blockchain technologies. The report starts by outlining the problems related to the current voting system, then a brief explanation of blockchain technology and its pros, cons and uses. The main section of the report discusses the different methods of electronic voting system based on blockchain and their limitations. The final section of this paper concludes the position of the blockchain voting system in today's world.

A Blockchain Voting System Based on the Feedback Mechanism and Wilson Score

A blockchain voting system based on the feedback mechanism and Wilson score is proposed to solve the problem of the malicious votes behavior. Firstly, the relatively accurate supporting rate and ranking for candidates are obtained using the Wilson score. Secondly, different feedback coefficients are calculated according to the above parameters. Finally, the account points are adjusted according to the feedback coefficients. The feedback mechanism is designed in the voting smart contract, and the smart contract is deployed on the blockchain to ensure the enforcement of the feedback mechanism. A fully functional smart contract is designed and briefly verified in this paper. The experiment is conducted under the K-out-of-L type of weighted voting. Experimental results show that the Wilson score can accurately modify the candidates’ supporting rates, and the feedback mechanism can effectively suppress malicious votes.

Prototyping decentralized electronic blockchain voting system

The modern electronic voting system is an interconnected set of rules, methods, processes, tools and technologies, as well as legal norms that ensure and regulate the remote legitimate will of authorized users (voters). This article proposes, investigates, and verifies by physical prototyping the two-tier architecture of the electronic blockchain voting system. The lower (first) level enables all components of the electronic identification process to be fulfilled by existing systems such as BankID, MobileID, electronic signature, and the like. This will ensure interoperability of electronic voting, inheritance of already implemented national information systems, in particular, of the national system of electronic confidential services, reproducibility of the results of physical prototyping of blockchain voting. The upper (second) level is intended for the implementation of the expression of votes and the counting of votes, with the provision of independent control over the correctness of the compilation of voter lists; the possibility of anonymous voting only by those who are entitled to it; the invariability and irrevocability of the results of the will; ease and transparency of checking the correctness of the vote count and the like. The obtained results of physical prototyping make it possible to confirm the validity and weight of the developed architecture, its ability to meet the basic requirements of decentralized electronic voting, the requirements of information and functional security and reliability of information technologies. The practical implementation of the developed blockchain voting architecture will increase trust in information resources and services (which is especially relevant for government agencies) and will reduce time and overhead; will make impossible the intervention of centralized institutions and possible corruption; will increase the reliability of information storage and the quality of services provided.

Problems, construction principles and development prospects of the national electronic voting system in Ukraine

The present paper considers national electronic voting system problems in Ukraine, principles of construction and development prospects. Electronic voting refers to a way to exercise will, in which the voting, counting, and publication of the results processes are carried out by electronic means and systems. Most existing voting systems are built on centralized principles and this allows providing certain advantages, for example, high controllability of the system, its reliability, and autonomy. However, hierarchical systems also have significant drawbacks, in particular, single decision center and centralized storage leads to vulnerability to cyberattacks on them. Also it should be noted, that in centralized systems due to the abuse of administrative resources distortions of the results of expression of will are possible. This is the biggest threat to the modern democratic information society. Research, development, and implementation of new technologies of electronic voting, which would make it impossible to intervene and distort the results of the will through decentralization while maintaining all the system qualities for safety and reliability are promising. This article proposes particular proposals for architecture substantiating as well as a basic model and interaction protocols of a decentralized electronic blockchain voting system. A two-level blockchain voting architecture is proposed, researched and verified through physical prototyping. Its implementation will increase confidence in information resources and services (which is especially important for government agencies) will reduce time and overhead costs; make it impossible for centralized institutions to intervene and possible corrupt practices; will increase the reliability of information storage and the quality of services provided.

Auditable blockchain voting system - the blockchain technology toward the electronic voting process

There exist many different electronic voting solutions and each has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Most of the existing systems suffer from inadequate transparency and auditability. However, recently introduced blockchain technology may provide a solution to these problems. In this paper, auditable blockchain voting system (ABVS) is presented. It combines existing voting approach and combines it with blockchain technology to create a supervised and remote internet voting system, which is transparent and audit capable. The paper describes the system's processes, components, model and results of initial testing.

Advocating for a blockchain voting system in the USA

The purpose of this paper is to present our proposal to use blockchain technology to create a secure, efficient, and smart voting system in the USA. The first section of this paper presents the current equipment and technology used in the current voting process in the USA. Next, an analysis of the technological challenges of our voting system is presented. Recommendations are proposed to remedy these challenges with the implementation of blockchain and biometric technologies. Next, the paper discusses the features, benefits, and uses of blockchain technology. Finally, arguments are presented both for and against the use of blockchain and biometric technologies for voting purposes.

Auditable blockchain voting system - the blockchain technology toward the electronic voting process

Auditable blockchain voting system - the blockchain technology toward the electronic voting process

Advocating for a Blockchain Voting System in the United States

Advocating for a Blockchain Voting System in the United States

Towards the intelligent agents for blockchain e-voting system

There are many existing voting solutions which have different benefits and issues. The most significant ones are lack of transparency and auditability. Recently developed blockchain technology may be a solution to these issues. The paper describes the use of intelligent agents and multi-agent system concept for Auditable Blockchain Voting System (ABVS), which integrates e-voting process with blockchain technology into one supervised non-remote internet voting system which is end-to-end verifiable.

Large-scale Election Based On Blockchain

Based on the blockchain, homomorphic ElGamal encryption and ring signature, an electronic voting scheme based on blockchain is proposed for large-scale voting, which has the properties of decentralization, self-management, non-interactive and free-receipt, furthermore the one-time ring signature ensures the anonymity of the vote trading in the blockchain. The public verifiable billboards guarantee the voting fair, and the miner nodes provides ciphertext ballot counting service makes large-scale voting feasible. Finally, we analysis the security of the blockchain voting system and present the performance in large-scale nodes.