Design of Blockchain-Based Electronic Election System Using Hyperledger: Case of Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia has held simultaneous general elections to elect the President/Vice President and legislative members on April 17, 2019. However, there were at least 4 (four) important problems arised in this election i.e. the problem of logistics distribution, the duration of the ballot counting that is too long, the inconsistent regulation of vote counting, and the error in votes recapitulation. Blockchain technology can be a solution to deal with those problems. In this paper, we propose a design of blockchain-based electronic voting system using Hyperledger for Indonesia case. Our design was analyzed in 3 (three) stages of analysis i.e. blockchain necessity, problem solution, and secure election requirements. Based on the results of the analysis, our proposed design can optimally apply the blockchain to solve the problems of Indonesia general voting system and can meet the secure election requirements to increase the trust of all the involved participants. The proposed design is able to secure votes in blockchain since the voting at the voting booth until the declaration of the elected candidate.