Secure Electronic Voting System

Algorithms for Intelligent Systems, 2021

—Homomorphic Cryptography raised as a new solution used in electronic voting systems. In this research, Fully Homomorphic encryption used to design and implement an e-voting system. The purpose of the study is to examine the applicability of Fully Homomorphic encryption in real systems and to evaluate the performance of fully homomorphic encryption in e-voting systems. Most of homomorphic cryptography e-voting systems based on additive or multiplicative homomorphic encryption. In this research, fully homomorphic encryption used to provide both operations additive and multiplication, which ease the demonstration of none interactive zero-knowledge proof NIZKP. The proposed e-voting system achieved most of the important security issues of the internet-voting systems such as eligibility, privacy, accuracy, verifiability, fairness, and others. One of the most important properties of the implemented internet voting system its applicability to work on cloud infrastructure, while preserving its security characteristics. The implementation is done using homomorphic encryption library HELib. Addition and multiplication properties of fully homomorphic encryption were used to verify the correctness of vote structure as a NIZKP, and for calculating the results of the voting process in an encrypted way. The results show that the implemented internet voting system is secure and applicable for a large number of voters up to 10 million voters.

2017

Internet polling also known as “e-voting” became popular in past few years, since it reduces the tallying cost and time, increases the number of voter participation, also reduces the human resources and the traditional work that means less fraud and corruption. In this paper, a remote e-Voting system is designed and implemented using homomorphic encryption. The homomorphic property in ElGamal cryptosystem are exploited to achieve two important voting requirements: first, the security of device used for electronic voting by voter. Second, the voter has the ability to choice willfully and uncoercionly. The general voting system requirements such as eligibility, privacy, accuracy, fairness, Receipt-freeness, coercion resistance, mobility, simplicity, individual verifiability, scalability and availability are also achieved in the system.

Electronic voting provides accuracy and efficiency to the electoral processes. World democracies would benefit from a secure e-voting system not only to improve voter participation and trust but also to prevent electoral fraud. However, current e-voting systems are complex and have security weaknesses. In this paper, we describe a secure e-voting system for national and local elections. This system satisfies the important requirements of an e-voting system through state-of-the-art technologies and secure processes. The system relies on homomorphic cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, biometrics, smartcards, open source software, and secure computers for securely and efficiently implementing the system processes over the various stages of electoral process. Furthermore, we describe the pilot implementations of this system that test the main technologies and processes used. We explain how the used technologies and processes achieve the system requirement. In conclusion, we recommend adopting this system for its security, flexibility, economic, and scalability features.

TELKOMNIKA Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control, 2018

The use of cryptography in the e-voting system to secure data is a must to ensure the authenticity of the data. In contrast to common encryption algorithms, homomorphic encryption algorithms had unique properties that can perform mathematical operations against ciphertext. This paper proposed the use of the Paillier and Okamoto-Uchiyama algorithms as two homomorphic encryption algorithms that have the additional properties so that it can calculate the results of voting data that has been encrypted without having to be decrypted first. The main purpose is to avoid manipulation and data falsification during vote tallying process by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm.

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2019

The aspect of electoral fraud and lack of transparency in the conventional voting system employed in India is a major problem that requires attention. The objective is to implement a secure e-voting system based on blockchain technology that counteracts the above-mentioned issues. The aim is to fight electoral malpractices by developing a system which will keep data secure in digital voting and prevent tampering of data while introducing a level of transparency in the system. One might argue that online voting is susceptible to database manipulation, however the adoption of blockchain technology solves this by its inherent property of decentralization wherein data is not stored in a central database, rather distributed over a vast network of peered systems. Electoral fraud in the form of voter impersonation and voting multiple times can be solved by the use of biometric voter authentication which has been implemented in the prototype of an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). This paper discusses the design and implementation of the system proposed.

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2022

It has long been difficult to create a safe electronic voting system that provides the transparency and flexibility provided by electronic systems, while maintaining the fairness and privacy of present voting methods. Voting, especially during elections, is a technique where participants do not trust one another since the system might be attacked not just by an outsider but also by participants themselves (voters and organizers). The traditional methods of voting systems find it challenging to maintain the characteristics of an ideal voting system since there is a chance of tampering with results and disturbing the process itself. As a result, the effectiveness of the voting system is increased by translating the characteristics of an ideal voting system into digital space. It greatly lowers the expense of the elections and the work of the inspectors. In this essay, we'll use the open-source Blockchain technology to suggest a new electronic voting system's architecture. New chances to create new kinds of digital services are being provided by Blockchain. Numerous elements of our life have been altered by Blockchain technology, including the ability to save digital transactions via the Internet, confirm their legitimacy, license them, and provide the greatest level of security and encryption. This system offers a distributed architecture for storing the data, which distributes the data among many servers. In addition to maintaining voter identity outside of the vote count, this technology makes the voting process transparent.

mantech publications, 2023

In a democratic country like India (which is the largest democracy in the world), voting plays a significant role in selecting government officials and showing our opinion on how the governing body to be formed. Blockchain platforms are already available, and many companies have already begun applying blockchains to their business. It is used in industry, but it can also be applied as a service and make voting more accessible. Online voting is an alternative to the old paper ballot system and the currently popular electronic voting machines (EVM). An electronic voting portal should offer security and integrity and the transparency of votes and voters' privacy. Therefore, NRIs and adult internet users can cast their ballots in a matter of seconds despite their location on the day of the election. This will be easy and more secure. In the current system, there's a high risk of false votes and damage to property. People don't want to stand in enormous queues and wait for a long time. Also, people who conduct the election have to follow a completely different procedure for voting, which takes more time, and there's no transparency. The paper also presents the state of the art of some blockchain frameworks for e-voting. This paper presents a literature review of the techniques used to tackle voting challenges.

International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 2018

The Secure Electronic Voting System using Blockchain Technology is ensured to make the current voting process to take place in an honest, accurate and highly secure way. This system stores the details of the voters and votes in two separate blockchains, which provides transparency into election results by allowing voters to independently audit the ballot box while protecting each voter's right to privacy. All the details of the voters get stored into one Blockchain, and this guarantees greater security by providing a PIN confirmed before the vote is taken into consideration. By casting votes as transactions, we can create another blockchain which keeps track of the tallies of the votes. This way, everyone can count the votes themselves, they can verify that no votes were changed or removed, and no illegitimate votes were added and as a result, is made public everyone can agree upon the final count. This system is only taking the current process of voting in an election and bringing that process entirely online, in an attempt to make it highly secure and also more accessible by allowing the voter to vote at his/her location and also reducing the effort put by staff members.

2020

India is the world's biggest democracy with a populace of greater than 1 billion; India has an voters of extra than 668 million and covers 543 parliamentary constituencies. Voting is the bridge between the ruled and government. The final few years have introduced a renewed center of attention on to the science used in the vote casting process. The modern vote casting gadget has many protection holes, and it is tough to show even easy protection residences about them. A balloting machine that can be confirmed right has many concerns. There are some motives for a authorities to use digital structures are to expand elections things to do and to limit the elections expenses. Still there is some scope of work in digital balloting device due to the fact there is no way of identification by means of the digital balloting device whether or not the person is real or now not and securing digital vote casting desktop from miscreants. The proposed device is to increase a like minded balloting computing device with excessive safety via the usage of Block-chain science in order to expand safety and transparency between the customers.