Secure Voting System Using Distributed Ledger Technology

Abstract

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies have increasingly been gaining interest over the last few years. The promise of a completely secure environment for data to be stored has caught the attention of everyone, including individuals and institutions, who, in their turn, have started to invest generously in related research and development of such systems, especially those concerned with finance and crypto-currency. In this research, we focus on the applications beyond these topics, aiming to solve the problem of tampering with vote counting in elections around the world. By designing and constructing a system of a distributed ledger with a permissioned consensus algorithm, we are composing a tamper-proof method to provide a secure environment for voting.