A Framework to Make Voting System Transparent Using Blockchain Technology

Aim:

        We are presenting a new e-Voting System with Face Verification that will overcome the drawbacks of the current voting methods that are used in India.

Description:

        A new voting system can be implemented, using login which requires a face verification and the name of the candidate. It is a web application, which supports all browsers. Valid voters will have their name, face verification, and other details in the government database in each state or district as seen fit. Therefore a Trained data will ensure that only legitimate voters can cast their vote. This application also ensures that the voting is anonymous, after the login, each user is given a unique and random block chain Address which will have no ties to the user’s details , therefore there is no way to find out which user voted for which candidate. A simple, user friendly interface in used, which will help even the illiterate voters. The focus in more on the visual representation of data, and no unnecessary links are used, the interface is made as simple as possible with only basic functionalities.

Introduction:

        Voting schemes have evolved from counting hands in early days to systems that include paper, punch card, mechanical lever and optical-scan machines. An electronic voting system which is used nowadays provide some characteristic different from the traditional voting technique, and also it provides improved features of voting system over traditional voting system such as accuracy, convenience, flexibility, privacy, verifiability and mobility. But Electronic voting systems suffers from various drawbacks such as time consuming, consumes large volume of paper work, no direct role for the higher officials, damage of machines due to lack of  attention, mass update doesn’t allows users to update and edit many item simultaneously etc. Therefore by implementing a decentralized Block chain based server environment we can prevent data loss.

Existing System

          This is the current voting system used in India. In this system vote is cast using electronics ballet. In this we cast our vote in an electronics machine. This is a group of some counter and registers. This voting system is quite easy, simple. It has advantage like mobility, secure, flexibility for election commission. But in today world all people are so much busy that they don’t have time to vote. This paper presents a perspective in the electronic voting process. That includes but not limited to identifying the polling process, The polling process the actual voting process used on the polling day.

Disadvantage

       The problems of the existing manual system of voting include among others the following:

• Expensive and Time consuming: The process of collecting data and entering this data into the database takes too much time and is expensive to conduct, for example, time and money is spent in printing data capture forms, in preparing registration stations together with human resources, and there after advertising the days set for registration process including sensitizing voters on the need for registration, as well as time spent on entering this data to the database.
• Too much paper work: The process involves too much paper work and paper storage which is difficult as papers become bulky with the population size.
• Short time provided to view the voter register: This is a very big problem since not all people have free time during the given short period of time to check and update the voter register.

Proposed System

        The proposed system is the face Verified online voting system with Face Verification using Block chain Address. It determines the particular voter by his/her Block chain Address   whether he/she is a valid voter or not. It allows particular voter to cast the vote online. The polling process continues until the voting time ends and update the database in the server. Face Verification online voting system uses Block chain Address   to retrieve the complete details about the voter. And the votes are stored in a block chain server and viewed to the public this ensure a trustworthy environment.

Advantage

• Voter can cast their votes from anywhere in the country without visiting to voting booths, in highly secured way.
• This will increase the voting percentage in India and reduces the cost of voting process.
• By using Face Verification it provides enough security which reduces the false votes.
• The collection of the results is done from the stored data on the blocks through the significant organization of the nodes in the block chain.