Trends in blockchain-based electronic voting systems

Pawlak, Michał; Poniszewska-Marańda, Aneta

doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102595

Cited by 40 publications

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“…Our paper used a similar methodology and objective to those published by the authors in the paper [10]. The analysis of the subject proposed in this paper is very interesting and our work is in line with it.…”

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confidence: 74%

Analysis of Blockchain Solutions for E-Voting: A Systematic Literature Review

Benabdallah¹,

Audras²,

Coudert³

et al. 2022

IEEE Access

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Today, the abstention rate continues to rise, largely due to the need to travel to vote. This is why remote evoting will increase the turnout by allowing everyone to vote without the need to travel. It will also minimize the risks and obtain results in a faster way compablack to a traditional vote with paper ballots. In fact, given the high stakes of an election, a remote e-voting solution must meet the highest standards of security, reliability, and transparency to gain the trust of citizens. In literature, several remote e-voting solutions based on blockchain technology have been proposed. Indeed, the blockchain technology is proposed today as a new technical infrastructure for several types of IT applications because it allows to remove the TTP and decentralize transactions while offering a transparent and fully protected data storage. In addition, it allows to implement in its environment the smart-contracts technology which is used to automate and execute agreements between users. In this paper, we are interested in reviewing the most revealing e-voting solutions based on blockchain technology.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 74%

Analysis of Blockchain Solutions for E-Voting: A Systematic Literature Review

Benabdallah¹,

Audras²,

Coudert³

et al. 2022

IEEE Access

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“…Many different approaches use different technologies and algorithms to mitigate these challenges of e-voting. In recent years, blockchain technology has gained much attention, and its potential for improving e-voting solutions has been recognized [10].…”

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“…This system adopted the node.js server to maximize the system performance and used Ethereum to support a blockchain-based distributed computing network. The blockchain-specific storage system IPFS was used for smart contract document storage and allowed access to the documents based on the application programming interface (API) provided by the IPFS [10]. For transferring documents on the IPFS, web3.Js was used.…”

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Implementation and Early Adoption of an Ethereum-Based Electronic Voting System for the Prevention of Fraudulent Voting

Ahn

2022

Sustainability

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Today’s online voting systems pose security concerns and cannot be used for public elections, while offline voting costs significantly more. As a result, a decentralized electronic voting system is emerging, backed by blockchain technology. With blockchain technology applied to online voting, the system can guarantee transparency and confidentiality because individual voter information and aggregate information are stored in a distributed fashion. Due to its decentralized nature, a blockchain-based voting system is more secure than the existing central server-based online voting system. In this study, an Ethereum-based electronic voting system was developed. This system resolves the issue of fraudulent voting by enhancing the safety and reliability of the electronic voting system.

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“…We have iterated over some most qualified works mentioned in Trends in blockchain-based electronic voting systems [31]. We evaluated these works in the following aspects: Eligibility, Uniqueness, Privacy, Anonymity, Fairness, Soundness, Universal Verifiability, Individual Verifiability, Robustness and Scalability.…”

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ElectAnon: A Blockchain-Based, Anonymous, Robust and Scalable Ranked-Choice Voting Protocol

Onur¹,

Yurdakul²

2022

Preprint

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Remote voting has become more critical in recent years, especially after the Covid-19 outbreak. Blockchain technology and its benefits like decentralization, security, and transparency have encouraged remote voting systems to use blockchains. Analysis of existing solutions reveals that anonymity, robustness, and scalability are common problems in blockchain-based election systems. In this work, we propose ElectAnon, a blockchainbased, ranked-choice election protocol focusing on anonymity, robustness, and scalability. ElectAnon achieves anonymity by enabling voters to cast their votes via zero-knowledge proofs anonymously. Robustness is realized by removing the direct control of the authorities in the voting process by using timed-state machines. Results show that ElectAnon is scalable amongst existing works as it reduces the gas consumption up to 89% compared to previous works. The proposed protocol includes a candidate proposal system and swappable tallying libraries. An extension is also proposed to minimize the trust assumption on election authorities. Our code is available on https://github.com/ceyonur/electanon.

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Trends in blockchain-based electronic voting systems

Cited by 40 publications

References 51 publications

Analysis of Blockchain Solutions for E-Voting: A Systematic Literature Review

Analysis of Blockchain Solutions for E-Voting: A Systematic Literature Review

Implementation and Early Adoption of an Ethereum-Based Electronic Voting System for the Prevention of Fraudulent Voting

ElectAnon: A Blockchain-Based, Anonymous, Robust and Scalable Ranked-Choice Voting Protocol

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