D-Voting

Abstract

Online voting systems were thought of as the solution to the problems of the traditional voting system but the problem still lingered because even in the online voting systems, there is a single authority that makes the decisions hence, leading to a single point of failure. As the technology is enhancing day by day, individuals are becoming more aware of the ways elections are rigged and the traditional voting system, as we all know, gets rigged or either the ballot boxes are burnt hence, putting a question mark on the credibility and authenticity of the whole voting system. These issues result in trust problems like corruption, fraud, fake votes, etc. A decentralized voting system represents all the steps involved such as showing the list of potential political parties eligible for voting along with their candidates, smart contract, a list of voters, and real-time democratic results. In decentralized voting, a smart contract is set up and not a single entity has the authority to make decisions. Blockchain is an emerging technology that is very safe and we have used it to overcome the problems of the traditional voting system by providing all the voters to see the real-time democratic process and since the votes are counted autonomously, so the chance of human error is also eliminated. We are using Ethereum Blockchain to make the most out of it. It brings the power of permission-based blockchain to enable reliable, safe, and quick applications. Our project will help solve the issues of traditional and online voting systems as it provides security, is non-hackable as one needs to win a consensus mechanism to make any change in the smart contract, maintains the anonymity of the voters and the counting of votes happens automatically