A Decentralized Blockchain-Based Voting System: Ensuring Security, Transparency, and Trust Using Ethereum

Abstract

As traditional and electronic voting methods are being increasingly scrutinized for security, transparency and availability, blockchain has emerged as a way to address some of these concerns. This paper describes a blockchain-based decentralized voting system which employs Ethereum smart contracts for controlling the voting procedure based on the features and characteristics of the public blockchain, such as security, immutability and transparency, hence guaranteeing a secure and fair electoral system. The voting process is automated and secured, thus a provable way to the votes casting or votes counting. Security scalability and user authentication are used to verify the system. The knowledge base system provides secure electronic voting, transparency of elections, builds trust among voters due to a real-time computational claimability of election results. This paper suggests a framework for building a blockchain-based voting system on a larger scale and more reliable than the existing voting system.