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Blockchain Based Voting System
Charan Reddy1, K Sriraj2, C Gangadhar3, P Swarnalatha4
1
Vellore Institute of Technology, India, vundelacharan@gmail.com
2
Vellore Institute of Technology, India, srirajreddy42749@gmail.com
3
Vellore Institute of Technology, India, gangadhar.reddy2018@vitstudent.ac.in
4
Vellore Institute of Technology, India, swarnaa2k2@gmail.com
Blockchain technology originates from the underlying
ABSTRACT architectural design of the cryptocurrency bitcoin. It's a sort of
The Voting/Electoral system is that the backbone of Each distributed database where records take the shape of
and Every Country and Organization. The main goal of transactions, a block is a collection of those transactions.
voting (in a scenario where the citizens have a right to vote) is With the utilization of blockchain a secure and robust system
to come up with their leader of their choice. At Present there for Election will lead to Secure voting. This report outlines
are various voting is conducted in various methods such as our idea of how blockchain technology could be next game
Ballot Voting, E-Voting also known as Electronic Voting changer with more secure system.
System, Missed Call Voting. Various problems are during
Election Period as some of them include ridging votes/fake
Also with Blockchain Technology, We will adding the
votes during election, insecure or inaccessible polling
more types of security Authentications Which helps to make
stations, inadequate materials and also inexperienced
Voting more Secure. Three Authentications are such as Face
personnel.To overcome this problems we have used
Blockchain Technology to make Unique ID’s for each vote. Authentication, Qr code Validation, The last one Otp
verification. We also added the Manual Authentication in
Which Admin/polling staff has to verify the voter Before
In this paper, we have tried to sort out issues faced by various
voting systems. And make Voting more Secure by using Voting. Voting Can be done after the Manual authentication
various authentications. only.If Admin not verify the person He cannot vote. Now I’ll
be discussing about our security Authentications.
Key words : Anonimity, Authentication, Blockchain,
Voting, Qr code. OTP verification
1. INTRODUCTION At the Time of Registration User will be asking to Provide
a Email Id. While the Voter Attempted to Vote. Then OTP
Election is extremely crucial and very serious event in any will be sent to the Mail id. The voter needs to Enter the OTP to
democratic country. the foremost common way during proceed to Next step. We Have used Node mailer For doing
election is Fake votes thru paper based system, but is it not The OTP verification
time to bring voting into the 21st century of recent
technology? Digital voting is that the use of electronic Face Authentication
devices, like voting machines or an online browser, to cast
votes. These are sometimes mentioned as e-voting when At the Time of Registration User will be asking to Capture
voting employing a machine during a polling place and a photo of user Which will be stored In our database. We will
voting when employing a browser .Security of digital voting is be verifying the Face During Voting. We have used Microsoft
usually the most important concern when considering to Azure API to Verify the Voter.
implement a digital voting system. With such monumental
decisions at stake, there are often little question about the QR Code validation
system’s ability to secure data and defend against potential
attacks. a method the safety issues can be potentially solved is After The Successful Registration, Voter will be provided a
thru the technology of blockchains. QR code which contains Unique Id. That will be validated
While Voting After the Face Authentication. We will be
asking the user to upload the QR code. After the successful
validation only User is allowed to Vote.
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After this Three Successful Authentications only the user will E-casting a ballot, then again, is another moving, yet basic,
be allowed to vote. theme identified with the online administrations. The
blockchain with shrewd contracts arises as a decent
3. LITEREATURE SURVEY possibility to utilize in improvements of more secure, less
expensive, safer, more straightforward, and simpler to-utilize
It Concentrates on survey and analysis of different Type of evoting frameworks. Ethereum and its organization are quite
voting systems. possibly the most reasonable ones, because of its consistency,
far and wide use, and arrangement of brilliant agreements
In this system, the voter can cast the vote by sending SMS to rationale. An e-casting a ballot framework should be secure,
the system using any kind of hand set through the mobile as it ought not permit copied casts a ballot and be completely
switching center. The voter has to first dial a tollfree number straightforward while ensuring the protection of the
in which he has to answer through SMS depending upon the participants.[5]
questions asked on recorded call.[1]
In this system, the user can create their own voting ballot. The Bitcoin presents a progressive decentralized agreement
system would be like that the user won’t have to register any component. Be that as it may, Bitcoin-determined agreement
account, they just have to provide the Aadhaar Card number. components applied to public blockchain are insufficient for
The local admin i.e. the user who creates the voting ballot will the organization situations of maturing consortium
be given a unique serial code by our system which the local blockchain. We propose another agreement calculation, Proof
admin broadcast to all the user’s who are going to vote.[2] of Vote (POV). The agreement is composed by the
disseminated hubs constrained by consortium accomplices
which will go to a decentralized discretion by casting a ballot.
One of the distinctive highlights of blockchain-based The key thought is to set up various security personality for
Distributed Autonomous Organizations (DAO) is that the network members so the accommodation and confirmation of
lack of a focal authority. Changes to blockchain information the squares are chosen by the organizations' democratic in the
are accomplished through agreement among blockchain group without the contingent upon an outsider middle person
network members, as opposed to through a focal hub's or wild open mindfulness. Contrasted and the completely
legitimate choice. Additionally, administration, i.e., changes decentralized agreement Verification of Work (POW), POV
to highlights and hidden ASCII archive , is accomplished has controllable security, assembly unwavering quality, just
through a decentralized system. As reception of blockchain one square affirmation to accomplish the exchange certainty,
has expanded, the need to develop and receive new highlights and low-postpone exchange check time.[6]
has developed. These progressions feature the system by
which the organization, as opposed to a focal hub, decides.
One change, in specific, proposed increments to the square Progressively advanced innovation in the present aided
size to influence adaptability limits, has been especially numerous individuals lives. In contrast to the constituent
steady the administration components utilized by divergent framework, there are numerous regular employments of paper
blockchains.[3] in its execution. The part of safety and straightforwardness is
a danger from a still far reaching political decision with the
ordinary framework (disconnected). General decisions
As innovation progresses, numerous nations have now actually utilize a brought together framework, there is one
settled on electronic democratic frameworks. Any democratic association that oversees it. A portion of the issues that can
framework should follow standards of straight forwardness happen in conventional constituent frameworks are with an
and fair-mindedness to accomplish reasonableness; the association that has full command over the dataset and
electronic democratic cycle should likewise be ensured framework, it is feasible to mess with the data set of
against significant freedoms. Blockchain innovation is one of the
digital assaults or forswearing of-administration assaults solutions, because it accepts a decentralized framework and
(DDOS) on the grounds that such assaults may influence the the whole information base are claimed by numerous clients.
handling time in casting a ballot methods and indeed, even Blockchain itself has been utilized in the Bitcoin framework
impede the reasonableness in casting a ballot. This known as the decentralized Bank framework. By embracing
examination sets up an organization security component for blockchain in the conveyance of information bases on
casting a ballot frameworks dependent on blockchain e-casting a ballot frameworks can diminish one of the
innovation. The blockchain component utilizes a circulated conning wellsprings of data set control.[7]
engineering that can forestall framework closure coming
about because of malignant digital assaults; also, any client in
the blockchain can confirm information uprightness, which The above proposed systems do not identify its users with the
fulfills necessities of straightforwardness and unprejudiced simplicity and compatibility of the its process as the majority
nature in casting a ballot frameworks.[4] being ill-educated. The systems are complex and require
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explicit tutoring and monitoring for efficient working of the as there exist a single handler to administrator page.After
system. Therefore, we provide a suitable software which registration of a new voter, Administrator verifies the
satisfies all the fundamentals requirements with minimal authenticity of the voter from his panel.
overhead cost.
4.3 Voting Authentication
4. METHODOLOGY
First the voter should enter the OTP sent to their Email id,
after verification, Voter uploads a Qr code, which represents
The development of the application is divided into four basic
the voter id and then Face authentication is done finally to
modules for which a brief
verify the voter. Microsoft Azure is used for Face
authentication when we used a Machine learning model to
match the face already saved in database during registration
Database Design
and captured face during verification.
Voter Registration
Blockchain is used to create a unique decentralised
Voting Authentication
transactions for each voting session. We will have log of
Voting/Vote Count
transactions performed.
4.4 Voting/Vote Count
This module describes the voting logic and the counting of the
votes for every candidate standing in the election. Only the
authorized user will be allowed to use the voting portal. The
voting option for candidates will redirect through the success
page if the voter has voted once. Else, he will be redirected to
the warning page which shows the rejection of the casted vote.
5. CONCLUSION
Voting percentage can be improved as now giving votes is
very easy. Voters can give vote from their place of
convenience without any problem. It will be very convenient
Fig1 for voters to do voting now. Booth capturing was always a
issue during election and sometimes voters are threaten to
Figure 1 shows architectural diagram of Blockchain Based vote for a particular candidate. It will not be a issue now. Lot
voting system of violence is done during elections to threaten people, which
can be reduced. Conducting voting involves lot of money and
security. But by now using online Blockchain voting system,
4.1 Database Design Spending money and as a result we can Decrease the False
Voting Percentage
The module describes the database structure and design
which uses two structured schemas or here collections admin 6. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT
schema and user schema. Admin schema describes the
document related to candidate details and vote count for that This Blockchain Based Voting System Application can be
candidate handled by the administrator. User schema made even more secure by using more biometrics such as
describes the document related to the user/voter details which Fingerprinting , Cornea Detection etc. The Face
is incorporated by the registering through a register form and Authentication is here based on Machine learning model in
validating ever user by the administrator. Microsoft Azure, Instead there should be a tamper proof
model developed for this Authentication purpose with good
4.2 Voter Registration hardware. So it helps to increase the security of the system.
Other methods Which can be used are “cornea detection” and
The module describes the backend mechanism of “biometrics”. But the problem is that it decreases the scope of
registration and login in node.js using npm package the platform because these need more electronic components
passport.js. The user registers itself filling in the details like fingerprint scanner to implement. So,it will decrease the
provided in the form and logs in with the username provided flexibility to cast the votes at their convenience. But if these
by the administrator. Administrator login is defined explicitly are implemented their will be no space for fake voting.
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