Authenticated Online Voting using Block Chain Technology

Abstract

Voting is a vital duty associated with each and every responsible citizen in a country. This vote plays a major role in deciding the people’s leader based on their support among the people. But mostly people neglect their primary duty on behalf of their lethargic character or interest-less [1]. According to a survey in the year 2016 approximately only around 60% of the eligible citizens registered their votes and the remaining 40% percent of the votes were misused for fraud activities like Electoral Frauds and other activities [15]. Thus in order to improvise the number of registered vote, the voting must be made pervasive and available for every citizen around nooks and corners of the country respectively. With the available technologies, any tasks are feasible for implementation. But, every other advancement in technology possesses their equivalent advantages and disadvantages, but for a huge population in the India country the more reliable mechanism available is the block-chain mechanism. The block-chain previously block chain is the collection of continuously increasing list of records or datasets, which supports data-variation without affecting the integrity of the data records in the block chain. The E-voting [14] enables a web-based framework that acquires user’s credentials and performs marshalling using the cryptography and associated with the parties optional parameters for the user’s selection and the choice obtained from the user is obtained and stored in the database as hash values in the block-chains for security purposes.