scholarly journals A Proposed Blockchain-Based Voting System with User Authentication through Biometrics

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Eduardo Takeo Ueda ◽  
Marcelo Moro Da Silva ◽  
Anderson Aparecido Alves Da Silva ◽  
Norisvaldo Ferraz Junior ◽  
Fabio Dacêncio Pereira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Voting System

Transparency and security in an electoral process are fundamental to the legitimacy of the results and the confidence of voters. Thus, it is necessary to assess opportunities to improve traditional voting systems. Among the main problems is the lack of transparency, due to the impossibility of a voter checking their vote and the lack of access to the source from which the results are obtained. Another problem is mobility, due to the impossibility of performing remote voting, as traditional voting systems continue to require the physical presence of the voter in an electoral zone. Thus, the objective of this work is to propose a voting system that is functional, transparent, safe, and accessible to everyone. Voters can vote through a mobile application with biometric authentication using fingerprint and password access. In our proposal, votes are registered in an Ethereum Blockchain through a Smart Contract, allowing the voter to check their vote. The results are expected to collaborate with the evolution of studies necessary to improve traditional voting systems, especially in fundamental aspects such as security, transparency, and mobility.

scholarly journals Development of A Fingerprint Biometric Authentication System For Secure Electronic Voting Machines

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
B U Umar ◽  
O M Olaniyi ◽  
L A Ajao ◽  
D Maliki ◽  
I C Okeke
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Graphical User Interface ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Slow Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Authentication System

            Democratic government in the world today rely on electronic voting as the foremost means of providing credible, transparent and fair elections for the electorate. There is a need for developed electronic voting systems to be security enhanced to ensure the authenticity of the developed system. Traditional paper balloting systems suffer from vote tampering, multiple voting and illegal voting by unregistered voters. They are also, susceptible to under aged voting due to the difficulty in authenticating the identity of prospective voters. Manual collation and publication of vote results also leads to slow response times and inaccuracies in published results. This research paper proposes a system to combat the current challenges through the development of a fingerprint biometric authentication system for secure electronic voting machines. It uses a fingerprint biometric sensor, integrated via Python to verify users of the system. The inclusion of biometrics improves the security features of the system. The secure voting system is built using PHP and easy to use Graphical User Interface was designed using HTML and CSS. Users are required to interact with the machine via a 7” touchscreen interface. From the results, it shows that the developed machine has a minimum response time of 0.6 seconds for specific operation, an FAR of 2%, FRR of 10% and overall system accuracy of 94%. The developed machine is able to combat the challenges of authentication of users, thereby guaranteeing the transparency, credibility, integrity and vote authenticity of the elections.

scholarly journals New Aadhaar with Multimodal Biometric Model-Based E-Voting System with Dynamic Hybrid IANFIS-PSO

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1416-1421
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Critical Function ◽  
Biometric Systems ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Dynamic Hybrid ◽  
Voter Id

This work deals with the E-voting system with a biometric concept that will make the voting system smart, secure and easy to vote which can be linked with Aadhaar card. While the process of doing the Aadhaar enrolment process Authorities gathered information of fingerprints and iris of every character and this whole fact of every person persists in the Indian government database. However these two biometric is not enough for the voter authentication process, besides improving the recognition rate, combining multimodal biometric modalities might be more appropriate for E-voting applications. If the Indian Government link this database to the voter ID present in these days vote casting gadget, then all of us can easily forge their votes the use of multimodal biometric authentication. With this motivation, the new Aadhaar with multimodal biometric-based E-voting systems (AMBEVS) system is designed in this work and it allows users to be confirmed using either modality. Here the validation of the voters is verified with the use of Dynamic Hybrid ANFIS-PSO. A critical function and objective of the proposed gadget are to decorate the photograph high-quality and low diploma of complexity for the security of multimodal biometric reputation frameworks. The experimental results show that the proposed AMBEVS are more robust, reliable and accurate as compared to the unimodal based biometric systems.

scholarly journals Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Michał Król ◽  
Alberto Sonnino ◽  
Mustafa Al-Bassam ◽  
Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos ◽  
Etienne Rivière ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Reward System ◽  
Fair Exchange ◽  
Content Dissemination ◽  
Collusion Attacks ◽  
Computational Overhead ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Memory Footprint ◽  
Vast Range ◽  
Over Time

As cryptographic tokens and altcoins are increasingly being built to serve as utility tokens, the notion of useful work consensus protocols is becoming ever more important. With useful work consensus protocols, users get rewards after they have carried out some specific tasks useful for the network. While in some cases the proof of some utility or service can be provided, the majority of tasks are impossible to verify reliably. To deal with such cases, we design “Proof-of-Prestige” (PoP)—a reward system that can run directly on Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchains or as a smart contract on top of Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchains. PoP introduces “prestige,” which is a volatile resource that, in contrast to coins, regenerates over time. Prestige can be gained by performing useful work, spent when benefiting from services, and directly translates to users minting power. Our scheme allows us to reliably reward decentralized workers while keeping the system free for the end-users. PoP is resistant against Sybil and collusion attacks and can be used with a vast range of unverifiable tasks. We build a simulator to assess the cryptoeconomic behavior of the system and deploy a full prototype of a content dissemination platform rewarding its participants. We implement the blockchain component on both Ethereum (PoW) and Cosmos (PoS), provide a mobile application, and connect it with our scheme with a negligible memory footprint. Finally, we adapt a fair exchange protocol allowing us to atomically exchange files for rewards also in scenarios where not all the parties have Internet connectivity. Our evaluation shows that even for large Ethereum traces, PoP introduces sub-millisecond computational overhead for miners in Cosmos and less than 0.013$ smart contract invocation cost for users in Ethereum.

Design and development of biometric voting system using fingerprint and facial recognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
A. Okandeji ◽  
M.B. Olajide ◽  
A.A. Okubanjo ◽  
F. Onaifo
Keyword(s):  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Electoral Fraud ◽  
Audio Processing ◽  
Security Breaches ◽  
Election Process ◽  
Distorted Version ◽  
Voting System

The election process adopted in Nigeria is mostly paper based or manual. This manually handled process can be time-consuming, and prone to security breaches and electoral fraud. Consequently, this work proposes a biometrically authenticated voting system to provide inexpensive solution to the electoral process in Nigeria. In particular, the biometric database is constructed by filling it with the audio fingerprints and the associated metadata of many audio clips, and then the fingerprint of an unknown clip (or the distorted version of the clip brought by compression or standard audio processing) is extracted and compared to that of the clip in the database. If the fingerprint of the unknown clip is in the database, it will be correctly identified by the matching procedures. The project is implemented with biometric system i.e. fingerprint scanning and facial recognition. Accordingly, this is used to ensure enhanced security, and to avoid fake, repeated voting. Results obtained showed that the proposed system is fast, accurate, reliable, and cost effective, thus a viable option to replace the manual voting process. Keywords: Biometrics, electoral process, facial recognition, finger print scanning

On the notion of ‘software independence’ in voting systems

2008 ◽  
Vol 366 (1881) ◽  
pp. 3759-3767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald L Rivest
Keyword(s):  
Election Outcome ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Optical Scan ◽  
Guidelines Development ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Development Committee ◽  
To Receive

This paper defines and explores the notion of ‘software independence’ in voting systems: ‘A voting system is software independent if an (undetected) change or error in its software cannot cause an undetectable change or error in an election outcome’. For example, optical scan and some cryptographically based voting systems are software independent. Variations and implications of this definition are explored. It is proposed that software-independent voting systems should be preferred, and software-dependent voting systems should be avoided. An initial version of this paper was prepared for use by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee in their development of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, which will specify the requirements that the USA voting systems must meet to receive certification.

scholarly journals Impact of Blockchain in the Voting System

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Keyword(s):  
Review Paper ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The People ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Electronic Voting System ◽  
Democratic Country

Voting is important for any democratic country. It can be considered as one of the major factors that make a government for the people and by the people. The most common methods of voting that currently exist are ballot-based voting, purely electronic methods, and Electronic Voting Machines, among others. Over the years, it has been a challenge to build a secure E-voting program that provides the privacy of current voting systems while offering a means of accountability and versatility. Using blockchain technology and cryptography we can make the process of elections as open and cost-effective as possible. In this review paper we discuss a new, blockchain-based electronic voting system that addresses some of the limitations in existing systems and evaluates some of the popular systems designed to create a blockchain-based e-voting system.

Building Trust for Sample Voting

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas K. Blanchard
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Party ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
The People ◽  
Voting System

This article explores how to build popular trust for voting systems that rely heavily on statistical tools, as they are generally counter-intuitive to the average citizen (and even to experts). By trying out the voting system in public and letting people tinker with it, a first level of familiarity can be achieved. Preliminary results from real-world experiments seem encouraging and point out the importance of psychological and sociological factors in election organization as well as the influence of user interface design. To go further, integration into a larger debating platform held by a national party could give first-hand experience to the majority of the people, and would progressively build trust as the political stakes grow higher. Finally, the authors look into how different e-democratic tools could interact in a mutually beneficial manner.

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