D-Elect: A Converged Blockchain-Based E-Voting For Secure Democratic Elections

Abstract

The transparency and integrity and of the democratic voting process are essential for the democratic governance. Traditional democratic voting systems generally used for the conduction of elections usually face challenges related to transparency, security, and efficiency, thus, leading to concerns related to integrity and public trust on the electoral process. This study proposes D-Elect, that is a converged blockchain-based e-voting system to explore the prospective of blockchain-based technology and addresses the challenges of the democratic voting systems by developing a blockchain-based e-voting system. A review of the current state-of-the-art applying blockchain-based technology for e-voting systems validates the analysis made in this study and the technical constraints addressed by implementing this study. Moreover, this study also discusses and compares several blockchain-based voting systems, in terms of voter anonymity, verifiability, security, accessibility, transparency, decentralization, scalability, hybrid consensus mechanism, and register customized constraints. Therefore, the proposed model for blockchain-based voting system can be used to provide secure and transparent system to cast and count votes. This will ensure the confidentiality, anonymity, and verifiability of the democratic election results. This study may be be improved by introducing privacy protecting techniques in the future that ensure honesty regarding voters’ identities and that votes are cast privately.