Blockchain for Electronic Voting System

Abstract

With the expansion of democracy across the world together, various kinds of election frauds like vote buying, booth rigging, booth polling, and so on have become quite prevalent. The neo concept of E-voting system emerged some three decades back. It deploys voting computers connected to a public network for conducting the election process as contrasted to the manual voting system of paper ballots. Despite this, it has been widely unsuccessful in curbing election frauds. Therefore, with the exponentially elevating demand of a secure and transparent E-voting system, it has become the need of the hour to introduce some radical improvisations in the current E-voting system rendering it easily accessible across the masses along with providing consistent voting results. This chapter provides an insight on blockchain technology as an important service provider to the modern society and elaborates the development and implementation of a distributed ledger technology-based application to optimize the current E-voting system. The decentralized architecture of blockchain technology and its role in distributing digital information synchronously across a network to maintain the integrity of polled and un-polled votes across all EVMs in the network will be the highlight of the chapter. Conclusively, the importance of a blockchain-deployed E-voting system to curb the limitations of the existing E-voting system in the light of hosting a cost-friendly, transparent, and secured nationwide election will be analyzed.