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Voting is the backbone of democracy and the fundamental right of every citizen. BlockChain based Election is like a boon for every nation through which the election can be conducted digitally, Unlike those old (paper based) and traditional (EVM) voting systems it makes the whole process of election safe, smooth and easy. In this era of Covid-19 this Block chain enabled election is the need of the hour, People can cast votes from their own space just with the help of a mobile phone or a computer, Security would get enhanced and threats like EVM hacking, Chaos at election booth would reduce drastically just by the implementation of this advanced voting system. Personal ID's and unique keys would be provided to each and every eligible voter which can't be tampered at any cost. It has two modules to make the entire project look consolidated and unified. First module is the Election Commission who could be liable for undertaking it, appending concerned everyone competing for the voting attached under blockchain. User end will be the resident's component where every eligible voter can choose a leader according to their separate Constituent sitting and the votes would get registered on the blockchain to make it tamper protected. © 2022 IEEE.
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Covid-19 pandemic has stressed more than any-time before the necessity for conducting election processes in an electronic manner, where voters can cast their votes remotely with complete security, privacy, and trust. The different voting schema in different countries makes it very difficult to utilize a one fits all system. This paper presents a blockchain based voting system (BBVS) applied to the Parliamentary elections system in the country of Jordan. The proposed system is a private and centralized blockchain implemented in a simulated environment. The proposed BBVS system implements a hierarchical voting process, where a voter casts votes at two levels, one for a group, and the second for distinct members within the group. This paper provides a novel blockchain based e-Voting system, which proves to be transparent and yet secure. This paper utilizes synthetic voter benchmarks to measure the performance, accuracy and integrity of the election process. This research introduced and implemented new algorithms and methods to maintain acceptable performance both at the time of creating the blockchain(s) for voters and candidates as well as at the time of casting votes by voters.
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The voting mechanism is extremely important in a democratic country like India. And we all know that any flaw in the voting mechanism will raise serious concerns about the entire electoral process. Creating a crowd in the existing scenario of Covid-19 also adds a lot of complications. As a result, in such a situation, the online voting system will be a huge success in the election. However, the online system's security and transparency raise certain concerns. So incorporating blockchain into online E-voting will eliminate all of these flaws. The method allows voters to register and vote for any candidate. The vote will be saved in a secure block chain, but all other information, such as the voter's name, city, and whether they voted or not, will be accessible to anybody via the website. This system will provide security by denying duplication of votes. © 2022 IEEE.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged the democracies. A representative democracy is the favourite instrument in terms of expressing a people 's sovereign will. Any democratic system is based on free, periodical elections. The election procedure is the natural way in which peoples participate indirectly in political decision-making. The conduct of the election under special conditions, like the conditions the heath crisis imposed, had consequences, particularly in terms of legitimacy. The pandemic-affected countries have taken a number of measures to ensure safe voting to electors, though a number of shortcomings marked the organization and carrying on of the election processes, such as lack of funding, technical errors, quarantined people 's inability to vote, low attendance, and legitimacy issues. In our study, we are analyzing the legislative elections that took place in Romania, Slovakia, Croatia, and Lithuania. After the electoral processes, which took place under these special conditions, it is a must to rethink the electoral processes in order to allow all voters to participate in the election of political decision makers.
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India is a highly densely populated country. India is facing a very serious challenge due to the novel COVID-I9 outbreak. In this situation, the economic state of the people is very unstable. Blockchain technology proves helpful to subdue the situation. A voting system with ballot papers is quite tuff now. It is very costly for the government. The pandemic may also spread very quickly. The system of developing ledger serves the idea of developments of a new e-voting system that is economical, easy to use, and highly secure. This paper proposes ways and solutions to design an e-voting system using blockchain technology. The paper's primary goal is to develop a highly secure e-voting technique using which people can cast their valuable votes from their home, working place - anywhere from the world. This e-voting technique is least costly, highly secure, and able to prevent further spreading of any infectious disease in the near future. In this paper, an e-voting system using blockchain has been designed to overcome all these difficulties mentioned above during traditional voting using ballot. The significance of the proposed work is to design of a highly safe and least costly e- voting system using blockchain. Using this system the people can cast their vote easily, securely and without wasting any time. Casting vote will be now just from few clicks away and from any place with a stable internet connection. © 2021 IEEE.
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Elections are the fundamental defining characteristics of any democracy that is being governed by the people, where in people express their choices or articulate opinions through voting. The existing voting system uses EVM system at polling booths for voting and its main drawback is the manual validation of the voter. In the polling booths, the voting process is organized by few organizers having a count from 5 to 10 or even above. These people are assigned to perform certain tasks, one of such tasks is to validate the voter. With the raising population this consumes a lot of time, which in turn increases the man power and the human error. This project aims to provide an efficient solution to overcome the drawbacks of the existing voting system. We have developed a module using face recognition algorithm, to validate the voter accurately and efficiently within no time. It even reduces the man power, as it alone, performs all the tasks performed by the several organizers at the voting booths. The algorithm made use of, is the Multi-Task Cascaded Convolutional Neural Networks which is known for its accuracy and speed. The reduction of man power helps to control the rapid increase of covid cases, which is the most prevailing problem and helps the voters to vote with ease. © 2021 IEEE.
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The 2020 general election occurred while many parts of the nation were under emergency orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This led to new requirements and considerations for voting systems. We introduce a model of the voting process to capture pandemic-related changes. Using a discrete event simulation case study of Milwaukee, WI, we study how to design in-person voting systems whose performance are robust to pandemic conditions, such as protective measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess various voting system designs on the voter wait times, voter sojourn times, line lengths at polling locations, voter time spent inside, and the number of voters inside. The analysis indicates that poll worker shortages, social distancing, and personalized protective equipment usage and sanitation measures can lead to extremely long voter wait times. We consider several design choices for mitigating the impact of pandemic-related changes on voting metrics. The case study suggests that long wait times can be avoided by staffing additional check-in locations, expanding early voting, and avoiding consolidated polling locations. Additionally, the analysis suggests that implementing a priority queue discipline has the potential to reduce waiting times for vulnerable populations at increased susceptibility to health risks associated with in-person voting.