An Implementation and Analysis of Zero Knowledge Based E-Voting Solution With Proof of Vote on Public Ethereum Blockchain

Abstract

Transparent e-voting is one of the applications that the turing complete public blockchain aspires to deliver by assuring verifiable votes. Public blockchains are much transparent, secure and have better auditing. In Blockchain based e-voting a voter identity is established with his account, whereas one account can cast a vote which leaves scope for user identity binding based on other activities on the blockchain. In this work we propose a privacy preserving and anonymous e-voting approach on the public blockchain. We introduce the concept of Proof of Vote.