A Blockchain-Based Network Security Mechanism for Voting Systems

Wu, Hsin-Te; Yang, Chang-Yi

doi:10.1109/ic3.2018.00-15

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“…Various conventional voting systems around the world were studied. Most countries have common voting systems, like First-Past-The-Post system, Proportional Representation, Instant-Runoff or Two round voting system Wu & Yang (2018). Every country modifies the base system as per their needs Carr III et al (2018).…”

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Blockchain Based Voting Systems

Soni¹,

Μαγλαράς²,

Ferrag³

2020

Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Cyber Warfare

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Voting is an essential tool for any democratic government. It is the most important factor that makes the government for the people, by the people. It is surprising that many countries in the world haven't moved on from traditional paper ballot system of voting. There are some countries that have taken a forward step by using Electronic voting ma-chines. As simple as it may sound, there are a lot of issues with these systems. Between having to physically go to the venues and standing in long queue at the polling station to counting the vote by hand the entire process is time consuming at the same time expensive. Malicious actors have many avenues to influence paper ballot based elections using intimidation at the polling booth by capturing the ballot box or stuffing the box by fake votes. Similarly, in Electronic voting machines, a highly motivated group can get hold of the machine and change the chip so whichever button is pressed, all the votes go to one political party. Another issue is it whether it is impossible to keep track of the votes. How can we be sure that our vote was counted or perhaps in case of ballot paper, not thrown away? The present article discusses ways of bringing voting systems into the 21st century by using the Blockchain Technology.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain Based Voting Systems

Soni¹,

Μαγλαράς²,

Ferrag³

2020

Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Cyber Warfare

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“…The proof of concept of blockchain technology has been demonstrated by its successful implementation in Bitcoin cryptocurrency [12], [13]. The features of blockchain technology such as decentralization, transparency, traceability, and tamper resistance makes it a suitable technology for EVA's and many of them have been proposed and implemented [14], [15].…”

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ADEVA: A Decentralized Electronic Voting Application Using Blockchain Technology

Abegunde¹

2022

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<div>Abstract—Despite the various advantages inherent in the use of blockchain technology, blockchain application platforms are characterized by bottlenecks, latency, energy inefficiency, time inefficiency, low transaction throughput, vulnerability to 51% attacks, and a lack of fairness in the sharing of mining proceeds. These challenges are currently affecting the performance of this technology, hindering its rapid development and adoption for real-time applications such as Electronic Voting Applications (EVAs). It is well known that the consensus mechanism responsible for the security and consistency features of a blockchain, is also responsible for most of the above challenges.</div><div>In this paper, a new consensus mechanism, Proof of Vote (PoV) is proposed, a lightweight consensus mechanism specifically adapted for EVA, as a replacement for the heavyweight Proof of Work (PoW) consensus algorithm. We use the Ethereum blockchain as a decentralized application platform, in which we develop a decentralized electronic voting application (ADEVA), replacing the Ethereum PoW consensus algorithm with the proposed PoV consensus algorithm. Thus we implemented ADEVA with PoV and compared it to the two major consensus mechanisms: Proof of work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS). We found that PoV enhanced the performance of ADEVA over and above that achieved using PoW and PoS. The low resource utilization and high transaction throughput of ADEVA with PoV makes it a scalable solution for real-world EVAs.</div>

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