d-BAME Distributed Blockchain-Based Anonymous Mobile Electronic Voting

Aim:

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

Synopsis:

          Currently, the voting system in India is in efficient and vulnerable to outer threats, the only thing that the security checks is a voter ID card, which these days are faked by many. It is slow and counting the votes manually can take a long time. In some rural areas, where there is not much security available, polling booths are captured and often most ballots are destroyed.

          So, the development of such a system which is online will cut out these possibilities and many votes can be saved through this system even if such incidents occur. To enhance the security and reliability of data in e-voting system, votes are stored in block chain.  

Abstract:

         The electronic voting has emerged over time as a replacement to the paper-based voting to reduce the redundancies and inconsistencies. The historical perspective presented in the last two decades suggests that it has not been so successful due to the security and privacy  observed over time. This paper suggests a framework by using effective hashing techniques to ensure the security of the data. The concept of block creation and block sealing is introduced in this paper. The introduction of a block sealing concept helps in making the block chain adjustable to meet the need of the polling process. The use of consortium block chain is suggested, which ensures that the blockchain is owned by a governing body (e.g., election commission), and no unauthorized access can be made from outside. The framework proposed in this paper discusses the effectiveness of the polling process, hashing algorithms’ utility, block creation and sealing, data accumulation, and result declaration by using the adjustable block chain method.

        This paper claims to apprehend the security and data management challenges in block chain and provides an improved manifestation of the electronic voting process.

Description:

        A new voting system can be implemented, using login which requires a finger print scan and the name of the candidate.

       It is a web application, which supports all browsers. Valid voters will have their name, fingerprint, and other details in the government database in each state or district as seen fit. Therefore a fingerprint scanner 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 id 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 Blockchain based server environment we can prevent data loss.

Proposed System

           The proposed system is the Biometric online voting system with biometric fingerprint using aadhaar card. It determines the particular voter by his/her fingerprint 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. Biometric online voting system uses aadhaar card to retrieve the complete details about the voter. And the votes are stored in a blockchain server and viewed to the public this ensure a trustworthy environment.