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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2019.23.1.103

Electronic Voting Systems Using the Blockchain  

Lee, Roo-daa (Department of Computer Engineering, Sang-Myung University)
Lim, Joa-sang (Department of Human Intelligent Information Engineering, Sang-Myung University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.23, no.1, 2019 , pp. 103-110 More about this Journal
Abstract
Electronic voting has been followed by a lot of research as it provides convenience to voters and increases participation rates. Nevertheless, electronic voting has not been widespread yet. The existing electronic voting system does not guarantee credibility, and there arises a question on the security that the voting could be forged or altered by the attack to the central server. In this paper, we proposed blockchain based systems to solve the problems in electronic voting. Although the blockchain may guarantee the security of transaction data, there have been only a few electronic voting systems implemented using the blockchain. We developed blockchain enabled voting and brought out some of its related legal, technical and operational challenges to enforce more security in voting. Unlike centralized voting, the systems could enforce security and solve the problems such as forgery or alteration of transaction data caused by hacking or any attempts to gain control of the central server system.
Keywords
Blockchain; Ethereun; Smart Contract; Distributed peer-to-peerm network; Electronic Voting;
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