Distributed Protocols at the Rescue for Trustworthy Online Voting

Riemann, Robert; Grumbach, Stéphane

doi:10.5220/0006228504990505

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“…The articles that we examined during the process can be categorized into five main groups (Table 4): (a) General: Many researchers published their conclusive research and pointed out that utilizing smart contracts on a blockchain platform will make a significant contribution to e-voting as it enables cost-efficiency and offers new possibilities to overcome limitations in the scalability of electronic voting systems. After reviewing both existing online voting systems and distributed systems, we have concluded that blockchain technology can be a solution that governments could adopt in order to obtain public voters' confidence and accountability [41,64,72]. From a practical point of view, in terms of development and exploitation, there are several distinct advantages and disadvantages of using blockchain-based smart contracts on electronic voting systems [79].…”

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A Systematic Review of Challenges and Opportunities of Blockchain for E-Voting

2020

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A blockchain is a distributed, digitized and consensus-based secure information storage mechanism. The present article provides an overview of blockchain based e-voting systems. The primary purpose of this review is to study the up-to-date state of blockchain-based voting research along with associated possible challenges while aiming to forecast future directions. The methodology applied in the review is a systematic review approach. Following an introduction to the basic structure and features of the blockchain in relation to e-voting, we provide a conceptual description of the desired blockchain-based e-voting application. Symmetrical and asymmetrical cryptography improvements play a key role in developing blockchain systems. We have extracted and reviewed 63 research papers from scientific databases that have advised the adoption of the blockchain framework to voting systems. These articles indicate that blockchain-supported voting systems may provide different solutions than traditional e-voting. We classified the main prevailing issues into the five following categories: general, integrity, coin-based, privacy and consensus. As a result of this research, it was determined that blockchain systems can provide solutions to certain problems that prevail in current election systems. On the other hand, privacy protection and transaction speed are most frequently emphasized problems in blockchain applications. Security of remote participation and scalability should be improved for sustainable blockchain based e-voting. It was concluded that frameworks needed enhancements in order to be used in voting systems due to these reservations.

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Section: Rq2: Can the Blockchain Concept Improve E-voting Systems?mentioning

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A Systematic Review of Challenges and Opportunities of Blockchain for E-Voting

2020

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“…In [Riemann and Grumbach, 2015], the authors introduce a taxonomy of further notions for distributed voting protocols.…”

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A Transparent Referendum Protocol with Immutable Proceedings and Verifiable Outcome for Trustless Networks

Schiedermeier

Hasan

Brunie

et al. 2019

Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII

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High voter turnout in elections and referendums is very desirable in order to ensure a robust democracy. Secure electronic voting is a vision for the future of elections and referendums. Such a system can counteract factors that hinder strong voter turnout such as the requirement of physical presence during limited hours at polling stations. However, this vision brings transparency and confidentiality requirements that render the design of such solutions challenging. Specifically, the counting must be implemented in a reproducible way and the ballots of individual voters must remain concealed. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a referendum protocol that ensures transparency, confidentiality, and integrity, in trustless networks. The protocol is built by combining Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC) and Distributed Ledger or Blockchain technology. The persistence and immutability of the protocol communication allows verifiability of the referendum outcome * contributed also throughout previous employment at INSA Lyon -LIRIS. on the client side. Voters therefore do not need to trust in third parties. We provide a formal description and conduct a thorough security evaluation of our proposal.

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“…An online voting system is an election system that store election data. It is important to have a safe voting platform to overcome problems during voters cast his/her vote [1]. The voting method that is usually used nowadays is a single-vote method, which is online single vote available and only one selected alternative.…”

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“…MCDM is a very useful method that can make decision-making with more than one criterion [2]. The voters can make ranking in numerical analysis (1)(2)(3)(4)(5) based on different criteria. This method is less time-consuming to the voters and it will greatly increase the credibility of the candidate to be known by the voter.…”

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Feasibility Study on using MCDM for E-Voting

Mohamed¹,

Ng²

2022

IJSECS

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An online voting system is an election system that manages the election process. This is a medium for the voters to cast their votes. It is also being used to calculate the votes collected from the voters to choose the representative for their own faculty. A typical voting system is based on a single attempt for each candidate being voted. The voting does not reflect the criteria implies to the characteristic of the candidate that going to be the student leader. To be a student leader, the student should fulfil the requirement such as good academic results, interpersonal skills with society, involving in activities of university and etc. Although the current voting system is able to maximize the participation of the voters, the voters may blindly vote the ballots casually due to they do not know the details of the candidates and the result is low quality and low public’s trust in the selected candidate. In this study, the aim is to develop an interactive online voting system that have ranking feature with MCDM method which allow online voting system to collect high-quality results from the voters. The Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method is used in the voting system while choosing the candidate. MCDM can let the voters make decision making or selecting the candidate based on the criteria that suit the position. The study starts with the literature study on implementing MCDM for a voting system. Then, a survey will be made to get the users’ views on the with and without implementation of the MCDM method in an online voting system. The expected result of the study is to investigate the current implementation of MCDM as a tool for decision making, then identify the possibility of adopting MCDM for the online voting system while choosing the representative for faculty students’ society. As a conclusion from the survey from the users’ views, it shown that most of the users thinks that the system with the implementation with MCDM method is less time consuming and able to produce high quality result conpare to the current online voting system. Most of the respondents also stated that they are more preferring to use the online voting system with MCDM method in the future.

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Distributed Protocols at the Rescue for Trustworthy Online Voting

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

A Systematic Review of Challenges and Opportunities of Blockchain for E-Voting

A Systematic Review of Challenges and Opportunities of Blockchain for E-Voting

A Transparent Referendum Protocol with Immutable Proceedings and Verifiable Outcome for Trustless Networks

Feasibility Study on using MCDM for E-Voting

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