Blockchain-Based Boothless E-Voting System

Abstract

A vote is considered as one of the most important legal rights a citizen can practice in a democratic country. Presently, votes are cast in two manners: manual mode, i.e., paper voting and the semi-manual mode using e-voting machine (EVM). Both systems require the accumulation of the voters in centralized voting booths. Several discrepancies arise due to the lack of security management in a centralized voting system. These can be avoided if a decentralized voting system can be implemented thereby providing a high-security impact. Blockchain is a technology that acts as a backbone for the highly secured parallel economy like the Bitcoin system. If this technology can be implemented as a security measure in a decentralized e-voting system, this will ensure the total security and authenticity of the voting system. In this paper, an endeavor has been made to design a blockchain-based e-voting system. Initial experimentation displayed satisfactory prospects of the system.