Ledger-based Electronic Voting System using a multi-tier security approach

Abstract

The right to vote is one of the fundamental tenets upon which democracies are built. The voting process has several difficulties in the modern day due to the prevalence of digital technology. By developing a prototype application that makes use of the idea of a ledger-based data store on a blockchain and a graph database, the purpose of this paper is to search for a workable answer to the problems of security, accessibility, and transparency in the electoral process, in an effort to identify an answer that is best suited and adaptable on a large scale. A distributed ledger uses linked nodes to store data in such a way that once a block is written, it cannot be modified on the chain without compromising the chain's integrity and the trust that users have placed in it. This property of blockchain is utilised by us in developing a secure data store for the application.