Block Chained Online Voting System (KEY IJP************545)

• Suhana Ismail Mattekhane,Suraj Sultan Mujawar,Sarfaraj Sardar Mulla,Kshwadip Kasbekar

Abstract

Voting is an essential activity in modern democracy. To facilitate the voting process, there were several attempts on proposing an electronic voting system such that, the voting and tallying processes can be done e silently and the results would be ac countable to the public. To date, however, an online electronic voting system has been rarely adopted in practice due to the possibility of having the voting result tampered through vote-rigging or cyber attacking. In 2009, the blockchain algorithm was proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto. Blockchain is a tech unique for recording transactions between self-auditing ledgers in an open, distributed, permanent, and variable manner. Even though blockchain was originally designed for a financial applications, it is possible to apply blockchain to other domains, including in the implementation of an online decentralized-based electronic voting system. In this study, the architecture of a blockchain-based electronic voting system, named Block VOTE, is proposed. The architecture design and all related formal definitions are given. To validate the proposal, two BlockVOTE prototypes were implemented using two different blockchain ap plication frameworks. The performance analysis of both versions of the prototypes are given. The analysis of both technical and management aspects on the possibility of adopting the proposed decentralized voting system in an actual voting scenario is also given at the end of this study.