BLOCKCHAIN
TECHNOLOGY BASED E-
VOTING SYSTEM
SUBMITTED BY: SHAGUFTA KHAN GHAURI
SUBMITTED TO: SAURABH SRIVASTAV SIR
INTRODUCTION
In each democracy, the protection of an election may be a matter of national
security. the pc security field has for a decade studied the probabilities of electronic
choice systems, with the goal of minimizing the price of getting a national election,
whereas fulfilling and increasing the protection conditions of an election. From the
dawn of democratically electing candidates, the legal system has been supported
pen and paper. commutation the normal pen and paper theme with a replacement
election system is essential to limit fraud and having the choice method traceable
and verifiable. Electronic choice machines are viewed as blemished, by the
protection community, based totally on physical security considerations. Anyone
with physical access to such machine will sabotage the machine
thereby moving all votes run up the said machine. Enter blockchain
technology. A blockchain could be a distributed, immutable,
incontrovertible, public ledger. This new technology works through four
main features:
• The ledger exists in many different locations: No single point of failure in
the maintenance of the distributed ledger.
• There is distributed management over United Nations agency will append
new transactions to the ledger.
• Any projected “new block” to the ledger should reference the previous
version of the ledger, making a changeless chain from wherever the
blockchain gets its name, and so preventing meddling with the integrity of
previous entries.
• A majority of the network nodes must reach a consensus before a proposed
new block of entries becomes a permanent part of the ledger.
LIMITATIONS OF EXISTING VOTING SYSTEM
• Anonymous vote-casting: Each vote may or may not contain any choice per
candidate, should be anonymous to everyone including the system
administrators, after the vote is submitted through the system.
• Individualized ballot processes: How a vote are depicted within the
involving net applications or databases continues to be AN open discussion.
whereas a transparent text message is that the worst plan, a hashed token is
wont to offer obscurity and integrity. Meanwhile, the vote ought to be non-
reputable, that can’t be bonded by the token resolution.
• High initial setup costs: Though sustaining and maintaining on-line selection
systems is way cheaper than ancient elections, initial deployments could be
pricy, particularly for businesses.
• Increasing security problems: Cyber attacks cause an excellent threat to the
general public polls. nobody would settle for the responsibility if associate
degreey hacking try succeeds throughout an election.
To mitigate these threats, software mechanisms which promise the following
should be deployed:
• Prevention of evidence deletion.
• Transparency with privacy.
Lack of transparency and trust: How can people surely trust the results, when
everything is done online? Perceptual problems cannot be ignored.
Voting delays or inefficiencies related to remote voting: Timing is very important
in voting schemes; technical capabilities and the infrastructures should be reliable
and run at the highest possible performance to let remote voting be synchronous.
OBJECTIVES OF USING BLOCKCHAIN
• Authentication: Only registered voters will be allowed to vote.
• Anonymity: The system prevents any interaction between the votes
casted by the voters and their identities.
• Accuracy: Votes once cast are permanently recorded and cannot be
modified or changed under any circumstances.
• Verifiability: The system will be verifiable such that the number of
votes is accounted for.
SCOPE
The following improvements can be made to the system, • Adding Aadhar
number verification system.
• Linking application with Government voting system data.
• Making the system more secure.
• Enhnacing the Graphical User Interface(GUI) of the application.
• Local languages can be included which will play a vital role for people living
in rural areas as well as uneducated people.
• A Candidate’s earlier social work and candidate qualification’s can be added
for a voter to have better choice.
• Also, adding suggestion system for voters that enables the public to give
suggestions to the current winner.
• A complaint system can be included, that allows the people to file complaint
against a candidate
CONCLUSION
The transparency of blockchain allows additional auditing and understanding of
elections. These attributes square a number of the wants of legal system. These
characteristics come back from redistributed network, and may bring additional
democratic processes to elections, particularly to direct election systems. For
evoting to become additional open, clear, and severally auditable, a possible
answer would be base it on blockchain technology. This paper explores the
potential of the blockchain technology and its quality within the e-voting theme.
The blockchain are going to be in public verifiable and distributed during a
manner that nobody are going to be able to corrupt it.
The idea of adapting digital selection systems to create the general public
electoral method cheaper, quicker and easier, could be a compelling one in
trendy society. creating the electoral method low cost and fast, normalizes it
within the eyes of the voters, removes an explicit power barrier between the
elector and therefore the functionary and puts an explicit quantity of
pressure on the functionary. It additionally opens the door for a additional
direct sort of democracy, permitting voters to precise their can on individual
bills and propositions
