An Overview of Blockchain Technology for E-Voting Systems
Krishna Veni Senapathi Veni Senapathi
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Abstract
Blockchain technology promises transparency, scalability, and security for elecctronic voting systems. In traditional voting and digital voting, there has always been a chance for fraud, which eventually led the people to lose their confidence in it. Blockchain technology promises transparency, scalability, and security for electronic voting systems. In the olden days of traditional voting and digital voting, there was a chance for fraud that eventually led the people to lose confidence in it. With a blockchain-based voting system, there is increased reliability with flexible consensus algorithms, secure smart contracts and through a decentralized, immutable ledger through blockchain. They rely on cryptographical techniques, smart contracts, and 5G network capacities that prevent 51% attacks as they even enhance voter authentication by the use of time-limited tokens and verifiable anonymous voting.They even enable vote tracking and validation without compromising voter anonymity thereby creating a transparent record that voters and third-party observers can verify. As the votes are so comprehensively recorded and encrypted, voters can show their participation at every stage without further details, and eventual disputes and recounts get reduced. The blockchain also brings about tamper resistance in the ledger, allowing the voting data storage to be much decentralized and challenging hackers to corrupt the outcome of the election. Therefore, the confidence of the voter in the integrity of the process will likely increase. Whilst there are many challenges in terms of scalability, easy verification of identities, and regulation with all of the considerations for legality, it will be an exciting future in which blockchain technology should be able to shore up democratic processes and public confidence in elections if these can be overcome.2. KEYWORDS: Blockchain , Voting System , Transparency , Smart Contracts , Cryptographic Hashing , Consensus Algorithms , Chain Security Algorithm
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Copyright © 2024 Krishna Veni Senapathi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.