E-Voting Using Blockchain: A Secure and Transparent Approach

Abstract: Voting is an essential part of any democracy but traditional methods based on paper ballots often face risks like security breaches, fraud, and voter intimidation. The opportunity to solve these issues comes with applying blockchain technology where voting is decentralized, secure, and transparent. This document analyzes how block chain can facilitate e-voting while dealing with problems such as voter impersonation, ballot secrecy, and election fraud. Utilizing crypto security, smart contracts, and decentralization, trust and accessibility of the electorate can surely be improved. We evaluated blockchain e-voting systems and their pros and cons as well as innovations that will follow in these systems. Voter impersonation and tampering have been long standing issues in electioneering and voting and recently emerged electronic voting scheme provides a possible solution to these problems. However, it has introduced complicated issues regarding security, credibility, transparency, functionality and most importantly, reliability. Using blockchain technology in e- voting improves security by effectively addressing threats of fraud and vote tampering. Such systems are virtually impossible to hack as the vote ledger is decentralized and can be verified by anybody.

Keywords: Blockchain; E-Voting; Decentralization; Smart Contracts; Cryptographic Security