DATE: A Decentralized, Anonymous, and Transparent E-voting System

Lai, Wei-Jr; Hsieh, Yung-Chen; Hsueh, Chih-Wen; Wu, Ja-Ling

doi:10.1109/hoticn.2018.8605994

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“…Lai et al [ 81 ] suggested a decentralized anonymous transparent electronic voting system (DATE) requiring a minimal degree of confidence between participants. They think that for large-scale electronic elections, the current DATE voting method is appropriate.…”

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Blockchain for Electronic Voting System—Review and Open Research Challenges

Jafar

Aziz

Shukur

2021

Sensors

146

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Online voting is a trend that is gaining momentum in modern society. It has great potential to decrease organizational costs and increase voter turnout. It eliminates the need to print ballot papers or open polling stations—voters can vote from wherever there is an Internet connection. Despite these benefits, online voting solutions are viewed with a great deal of caution because they introduce new threats. A single vulnerability can lead to large-scale manipulations of votes. Electronic voting systems must be legitimate, accurate, safe, and convenient when used for elections. Nonetheless, adoption may be limited by potential problems associated with electronic voting systems. Blockchain technology came into the ground to overcome these issues and offers decentralized nodes for electronic voting and is used to produce electronic voting systems mainly because of their end-to-end verification advantages. This technology is a beautiful replacement for traditional electronic voting solutions with distributed, non-repudiation, and security protection characteristics. The following article gives an overview of electronic voting systems based on blockchain technology. The main goal of this analysis was to examine the current status of blockchain-based voting research and online voting systems and any related difficulties to predict future developments. This study provides a conceptual description of the intended blockchain-based electronic voting application and an introduction to the fundamental structure and characteristics of the blockchain in connection to electronic voting. As a consequence of this study, it was discovered that blockchain systems may help solve some of the issues that now plague election systems. On the other hand, the most often mentioned issues in blockchain applications are privacy protection and transaction speed. For a sustainable blockchain-based electronic voting system, the security of remote participation must be viable, and for scalability, transaction speed must be addressed. Due to these concerns, it was determined that the existing frameworks need to be improved to be utilized in voting systems.

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Section: Related Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain for Electronic Voting System—Review and Open Research Challenges

Jafar

Aziz

Shukur

2021

Sensors

146

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“…This arrangement ensures that the data and the code are held securely. Since the voting record and code of an EVA are supposed to be tamper-proof, this model is more suitable for the deployment of an EVA [5], [40].…”

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ADEVA: A Decentralized Electronic Voting Application Using Blockchain Technology

Abegunde¹

2022

Preprint

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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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“…Thus, changing the votes by the voter can be good results for a comprehensive social choice. Jr Lai et al [15] provided transparency with privacy is one of the hallmarks of reliable voting systems. Every vote must be anonymous and be counted correctly.…”

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A Blockchain-Based Voting System for E-Elections in Totalitarian States

shafiabadi¹

2021

AJBOR

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The purpose of the present research was to introduce a blockchain-based voting system so that any state, including totalitarian states, can show interest in using it. In this method, a hybrid voting system with two centralized and distributed systems was used. Its centralized system is one of the most common voter identification and polling models, and its distributed system, which is designed with Ethereum public blockchain, is voting for voters. Totalitarian states are not interested in announcing the results online. Also, the lack of trust in E-voting systems by both states and voters has led to E-voting in important political elections in most states as support for manual or paper voting. Based on the results of field research with this voting system, it was possible to create a 7 min break between the end of the voting process and the announcement of the results for political considerations. This break can be increased by agreement. The results of the votes cannot be manipulated in any way. Survey results should also be communicated to voters before the voting process. This voting system can improve the level of democracy and maximum participation. It is hoped that the spread of distributed technologies, especially the blockchain, will pave the way for the spread of justice and democracy around the world.

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DATE: A Decentralized, Anonymous, and Transparent E-voting System

Cited by 45 publications

References 7 publications

Blockchain for Electronic Voting System—Review and Open Research Challenges

Blockchain for Electronic Voting System—Review and Open Research Challenges

ADEVA: A Decentralized Electronic Voting Application Using Blockchain Technology

A Blockchain-Based Voting System for E-Elections in Totalitarian States

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