Peace engineering: The contribution of blockchain systems to the e-voting process.

In a democratic country like India (which is the largest democracy in the world), Voting plays a major role in the selection of government officials as well as showing our opinion how the governing body to be formed. Time to time, researches are conducted in order to tackle the difficulties in the centralized voting system to make it more anonymous, reliable and secure while preventing any kind of frauding. Even though the use of e-voting through the electronic medium, we have to face well-known problems of maintenance and fraud. Currently, various researches are conducting in-order to make secure and reliable voting system while tackling issues of anonymity and security. Through Decentralized System, focus is drifting towards making Voting Process simple, secure and anonymity in the hand of the public. This paper presents a literature review on the papers and the techniques used to tackle voting challenges.

A Comparitive Analysis on E-Voting System Using Blockchain

The voting system in Nigeria has always been filled with different forms of manipulation, and m-voting was suggested as the solution but has a major problem which is securely storing the casted votes. Blockchain was proposed to mitigate this problem and with the utilization of two-factor authentication to prevent illegible voters from casting their votes. The objective of this paper is to develop a mobile voting system that utilizes two-factor authentication to authenticate the voters and blockchain technology to securely store the votes. The system was then evaluated using the ISO 9241-11 usability model, and the results showed that the proposed system had a good usability rating which implies that it can be utilized in a voting procedure.

Implementing a Mobile Voting System Utilizing Blockchain Technology and Two-Factor Authentication in Nigeria

To this day, abstention rates continue to rise, largely due to the need to travel to vote. This is why remote e-voting will increase the turnout by allowing everyone to vote without the need to travel. It will also minimize the risks and obtain results in a faster way compared to a traditional vote with paper ballots. In fact, given the high stakes of an election, a remote e-voting solution must meet the highest standards of security, reliability, and transparency to gain the trust of citizens. In literature, several remote e-voting solutions based on blockchain technology have been proposed. Indeed, the blockchain technology is proposed today as a new technical infrastructure for several types of IT applications because it allows to remove the TTP and decentralize transactions while offering a transparent and fully protected data storage. In addition, it allows to implement in its environment the smart-contracts technology which is used to automate and execute agreements between users. In this paper, we are interested in reviewing the most revealing e-voting solutions based on blockchain technology.

Analysis of Blockchain Solutions for E-Voting: A Systematic Literature Review

E-Voting or electronic voting is a means for the election process to be conducted without the use of traditional paper ballots. The e-voting process, to be implemented in a large-scale scenario, requires the addressing of concerns concerning the security and reliability of such a system. The Blockchain technology, introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto using the cryptographic currency Bitcoin in 2008, opens up possibilities of designing and developing a secure, transparent and decentralized system with the absence of a third party for access and control, in the election procedure of casting and counting of votes.

Francesco Fusco

Papers

Crypto-voting, a Blockchain based e-Voting System.