scholarly journals Practical I-Voting on Stellar Blockchain

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7606
Author(s):  
Stanisław Barański ◽  
Julian Szymański ◽  
Andrzej Sobecki ◽  
David Gil ◽  
Higinio Mora
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Election Process ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Low Costs ◽  
Transaction Fees

In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving i-voting system based on the public Stellar Blockchain network. We argue that the proposed system satisfies all requirements stated for a robust i-voting system including transparency, verifiability, and voter anonymity. The practical architecture of the system abstracts a voter from blockchain technology used underneath. To keep user privacy, we propose a privacy-first protocol that protects voter anonymity. Additionally, high throughput and low transaction fees allow handling large scale voting at low costs. As a result we built an open-source, cheap, and secure system for i-voting that uses public blockchain, where everyone can participate and verify the election process without the need to trust a central authority. The main contribution to the field is a method based on a blind signature used to construct reliable voting protocol. The proposed method fulfills all requirements defined for i-voting systems, which is challenging to achieve altogether.

scholarly journals Blockchain for Electronic Voting System—Review and Open Research Challenges

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 5874
Author(s):  
Uzma Jafar ◽  
Mohd Juzaiddin Ab Aziz ◽  
Zarina Shukur
Keyword(s):  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Online Voting ◽  
Election Systems ◽  
Electronic Voting System

Online voting is a trend that is gaining momentum in modern society. It has great potential to decrease organizational costs and increase voter turnout. It eliminates the need to print ballot papers or open polling stations—voters can vote from wherever there is an Internet connection. Despite these benefits, online voting solutions are viewed with a great deal of caution because they introduce new threats. A single vulnerability can lead to large-scale manipulations of votes. Electronic voting systems must be legitimate, accurate, safe, and convenient when used for elections. Nonetheless, adoption may be limited by potential problems associated with electronic voting systems. Blockchain technology came into the ground to overcome these issues and offers decentralized nodes for electronic voting and is used to produce electronic voting systems mainly because of their end-to-end verification advantages. This technology is a beautiful replacement for traditional electronic voting solutions with distributed, non-repudiation, and security protection characteristics. The following article gives an overview of electronic voting systems based on blockchain technology. The main goal of this analysis was to examine the current status of blockchain-based voting research and online voting systems and any related difficulties to predict future developments. This study provides a conceptual description of the intended blockchain-based electronic voting application and an introduction to the fundamental structure and characteristics of the blockchain in connection to electronic voting. As a consequence of this study, it was discovered that blockchain systems may help solve some of the issues that now plague election systems. On the other hand, the most often mentioned issues in blockchain applications are privacy protection and transaction speed. For a sustainable blockchain-based electronic voting system, the security of remote participation must be viable, and for scalability, transaction speed must be addressed. Due to these concerns, it was determined that the existing frameworks need to be improved to be utilized in voting systems.

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.

scholarly journals Architecture-Centric Evaluation of Blockchain-Based Smart Contract E-Voting for National Elections

Informatics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Olawande Daramola ◽  
Darren Thebus
Keyword(s):  
Decision Makers ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Study Context ◽  
Significant Attention

E-voting is one of the valid use cases of blockchain technology with many blockchain e-voting systems already proposed. But efforts that focus on critical analysis of blockchain e-voting architectures for national elections from stakeholders’ perspectives are mostly lacking in the literature. Therefore, government decision-makers and election stakeholders do not yet have a sufficient basis to understand the potential risks, challenges, and prospects that are associated with blockchain e-voting. This paper demonstrates how the use of the Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method (ATAM) can enable stakeholders in national elections to understand the risks, prospects, and challenges that could be associated with a blockchain e-voting system for national elections. By using a study context of South Africa, a proposed blockchain e-voting architecture was used as a basis to aid election stakeholders to reason on the concept of blockchain e-voting to get them to understand the potential risks, security threats, critical requirements attributes, and weaknesses that could be associated with using blockchain e-voting for national elections. The study found that blockchain e-voting can prevent many security attacks, internal vote manipulation, and promote transparency. However, voter validation and the security of the blockchain architecture are potential weaknesses that will need significant attention.

scholarly journals Blockchain technology based e-voting system

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 03001
Author(s):  
Anita A. Lahane ◽  
Junaid Patel ◽  
Talif Pathan ◽  
Prathmesh Potdar
Keyword(s):  
Electoral System ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Public Examination ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Electronic Vote ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Election System ◽  
Voting System ◽  
End To End

Election could be a important event during a trendy democracy however massive sections of society round the world don’t trust their election system that is major concern for the democracy. Even the world’s largest democracies like Republic of India, us, and Japan still suffer from a blemished legal system. Vote rigging, hacking of the EVM (Electronic vote machine), election manipulation, and booth capturing square measure the key problems within the current electoral system. during this system, we tend to square measure work the problems|the problems within the election vote systems and attempting to propose the E-voting model which might resolve these issues. The system can highlight a number of the popular blockchain frameworks that provide blockchain as a service and associated electronic E-voting system that is predicated on blockchain that addresses all limitations severally, it additionally preserve participant’s obscurity whereas still being hospitable public examination. Building Associate in Nursing electronic electoral system that satisfies the legal necessities of legislators has been a challenge for an extended time. Distributed ledger technologies is Associate in Nursing exciting technological advancement within the info technology world. Blockchain technologies supply Associate in Nursing infinite vary of applications cashing in on sharing economies. Blockchain could be a unquiet technology of current era and guarantees to enhance the resilience of e-voting systems. this technique presents a shot to leverage edges of blockchain like cryptological foundations and transparency to attain an efficient theme for e-voting. The projected theme conforms to the elemental necessities for e-voting schemes and achieves end-to-end verifiability. The system presents in-depth analysis of the theme that with success demonstrates its effectiveness to attain Associate in Nursing end-to-end verifiable e-voting theme.

scholarly journals Reliable Electronic Voting using Blockchain Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 2040-2043
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Crypto Currency ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Block Chain ◽  
Electronic Voting System ◽  
Democratic Country

Voting is the principal incident in any democratic country. Generally voting is done using ballots system, but this technique is ancient and can be easily sabotaged. There is a necessity to bring in new technologies to ensure effective implementation of digital voting systems. The security of digital voting is a significant aspect for implementation and must meet the requirements to be appropriate for trust worthiness. Block chain technology provides reliable electronic voting system that can be secured by adding more decision so that the possible attacks can be avoided. Block chain technology based on crypto currency implements diffused database architecture with transaction records secured by transactions.

scholarly journals Covid-19: Implementation e-voting Blockchain Concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustofa Kamil ◽  
Ankur Singh Bist ◽  
Untung Rahardja ◽  
Nuke Puji Lestari Santoso ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Data Transfer ◽  
The Public ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
General Chairman ◽  
Trial Analysis ◽  
Score Analysis ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
The Government ◽  
Regional Leaders

The current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic is currently increasing public concern about the community. The government has especially recommended Stay at Home and the implementation of PSBB in various regions. One of the concerns is when the election of regional leaders to the general chairman. Even though there is already a safeguard regulation, this is not considered safe in the current Covid-19 pandemic. The solution in this research is the use of a blockchain-based E-voting system to help tackle election unrest during Covid-19. Where e-voting with blockchain technology can be carried out anywhere through the device without the need to be present in the voting booth, reducing data fraud, accurate and decentralized voting results that can be accessed by the public in real-time. The use of cryptographic protocols is applied for data transfer between system components as well as valid system security. This research method uses SUS trial analysis in a significant system of the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The implication that the SUS Score analysis shows 90 shows an acceptable E-voting system, meaning that the community can accept it because it brings positive and significant impacts such as effectiveness and efficiency.

Concerns and Solutions on Electronic Voting Systems Adoption

2003 ◽  
pp. 127-146
Author(s):  
Yurong Yao ◽  
Edward Watson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Technology ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Electronic Voting System

Electronic voting has become a viable form of e-government due to the rapid advances in technologies and communication networks. The United States and most European and Asian Countries, like Japan, have taken the first step towards electronic elections. The unique features of electronic voting systems bring advantages to the public as well as resulting in concerns about electronic voting system (EVS) implementation. In this chapter, we examine those advantages of EVS and the principal obstacles in its implementation: privacy, security and accessibility. By investigating the current technology and government efforts to overcome these problems, some recommendations are proposed to gain voters’ trust on EVS and further increase their participation by using EVS.

scholarly journals Secure Online E-voting Protocol Based on Voters Authentication

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3268-3270
Keyword(s):  
Random Number ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Public Key Encryption ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
The Public ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Limit Access

Although there are many e-voting systems present by analysis it is found that they all are vulnerable to privacy risk and weakness of unreliable protocols and denial of service attacks. Here is the need to implement the public key encryption e-voting system. The primary objective of this system is to make ensure reliability, privacy and security of the protocol and voting is convenience to users. As a result of the specification requirements, the system was summarized into three parts: access control process which limit access to a system or to any other resource. Secondly, voting process was done by encrypting voter's electronic ballot before submitting to the server. Finally, the final result was sorted through deciphering the received encrypted information. The System is more efficient than other E-Voting systems, since voters can vote from their devices without extra cost and effort, and encryption ensures the security. A pseudo random number is generated using the OTP principle, is used by the voter for authentication purpose while casting the vote. These techniques provide a secure platform, thus exceeding vulnerabilities of the traditional voting system.

scholarly journals Blockchain-Based Voting System

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiayang Yao ◽  
Lan Wei ◽  
Tianqi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Distributed Database ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Consensus Algorithms ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Work Mechanism ◽  
Synchronous Operation

The advantage of electronic voting is that the voting is convenient and quick and the counting of votes is simple, but it is difficult to meet the requirements of both high security and large-scale application. This paper proposes an electronic voting protocol and system based on blockchain technology. The blockchain layer will use the P2P network to build a distributed database, use digital signature algorithms and encryption technologies to ensure that the data cannot be tampered with, and consensus algorithms to ensure the consistency of the data in the network, and use time stamping technology to connect the data blocks end to end chain structure preservation. And the application of Ethereum fully integrates different functional modules as a whole, achieves consensus through a proof-of-work mechanism, miners mine, and the new network protocol is formulated to achieve synchronous operation of the blockchain. Finally, the smart contract deployed on Ethereum runs on an Ethereum-specific virtual machine, and interacts with the underlying blockchain through the Ethereum virtual machine and RPC interface.

Absolute Transformation and CLAHE E-Voting System Using Blockchain Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 4890-4896
Author(s):  
S. Mahalakshmi ◽  
N. Archana ◽  
B. Sundarambal ◽  
A. Dineshkumar
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Unauthorized Access ◽  
Ordinary Method ◽  
Aes Algorithm ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Election System ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Block Chain ◽  
Centralized System

Nowadays the growth of digital technology has increased since it is more helpful for people. The main threats in the general ballot system are security and transparency. The current voting system is a centralized system based on a single organization. Main issue in the ordinary method is that only one organization maintains the entire database since it is centralized. The problem is that the organization can make unauthorized access to the database and alter the data or remove the data from the database which leads to loss/change of data. The better solution for this problem is making the existing election system decentralized. For making the database decentralized we use block chain technology. By using this technology we can make the datas more secure and not accessed by anyone. So there is no loss/change of data. Implementing blockchain in e-voting systems can reduce the unauthorized database manipulations. AES algorithm can be used to encrypt the data from the fingerprint sensor. This paper also presents various studies on the existing e-voting systems and shows how our voting system is better and different from the former.

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