In the second decade of the 21st century, blockchain definitely became one of the most trending computational technologies. This research aims to question the feasibility and suitability of using blockchain technology within e-voting systems, regarding both technical and non-technical aspects. In today's world, although the course of this spreading is considerably slow, several countries already use means of e-voting due to many social and economic reasons, which we further investigated. Nevertheless, the number of countries offering various e-government solutions, apart from e-voting, is significantly high. E-voting systems, naturally, require much more attention and assurance regarding potential security and anonymity issues, since voting is one of the few extremely critical governmental processes. Nevertheless, e-voting is not purely a governmental service, but many companies and nonprofit organizations would benefit the cost-efficiency, scalability, remote accessibility, and ease of use that it provides. Blockchain technology is claimed to be able to address some, obviously not all, important security concerns, including anonymity, confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation. The analysis results presented in this article mostly confirm these claims. and valid changes) could be provided during the election time. This should be implemented with a supporting consensus protocol. Security is further discussed in the following parts.
B. Social AspectsApplications involving e-voting and the Blockchain technology have big social impacts, too. These impacts can further be listed as the value obtained from the provided ease of use and the people's perception of trust to these so-called "hitech" systems. Generally, the e-Government services enabled wider, easier, and faster access to the government services for the people, including the ones living in remote settlements and the ones who are very busy and/or mobile. So that it can be seen as a powerful tool that reinforces the government-citizen relationships [21]. While the e-Government itself is not directly related to the democracy, the concept of e-voting extends the e-Government to provide means of democracy, called e-Democracy. 132 applications. While this mechanism ensures the integrity and authentication of the user/voter accounts, authenticating the users themselves remains as an open problem.
E. Comparison with AlternativesWhile there are hundreds of different e-Government applications and services, throughout the world, we cannot claim the same for e-voting systems, there aren't many to compare. Even so, we compared the distributed model of the blockchain scheme with centralized solutions, mostly referring to the Estonia model, which is one of the few successful applications so far.Since the application in Estonia is a full off-the-shelf solution, a blockchain based variation shall not totally replace all the methods used in parts of that system. For example, a blockchain based solution itself would not provide a brandnew personal ID authentication mechan...
