Crypto-democracy: A decentralized voting scheme using blockchain technology

Gautam Srivastava; Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi; Rajani Singh

doi:10.5220/0006881905080513

Crypto-democracy: A decentralized voting scheme using blockchain technology

Gautam Srivastava, Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi, Rajani Singh

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Abstract

A fraudulent election is one of the biggest problems of the contemporaneity in most countries. Even the world’s largest democracies like India, United States, and Japan still suffer from a flawed electoral system. Vote rigging, hacking of the EVM (Electronic voting machine), election manipulation, and polling booth capturing are the major issues in the current voting system. This fallacious election process calls voting systems into question. With the current Cambridge Analytica scandal a hot topic around the world, it brings the validity of current voting systems into question. In this paper, we investigate the problems in the election voting systems and propose a novel voting model which can resolve these issues. We use a recently introduced blockchain based protocol called PHANTOM, which uses a directed acyclic graph of blocks, also known as blockDAG, to generalize the initial blockchain technology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SECRYPT
Editors	Pierangela Samarati, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Mohammad S. Obaidat
Number of pages	6
Publisher	SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications
Publication date	2018
Pages	508-513
ISBN (Electronic)	9789897583193
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5220/0006881905080513
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2018 - Porto, Portugal Duration: 26 Jul 2018 → 28 Jul 2018

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Conference	15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2018
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Porto
Period	26/07/2018 → 28/07/2018
Sponsor	Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC)

Series	ICETE 2018 - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications
Volume	2

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Keywords

Blockchain Voting
Cryptocurrency
Distributed System
Graphs
PHANTOM
Voting Schemes

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Srivastava, Gautam ; Dwivedi, Ashutosh Dhar ; Singh, Rajani. / Crypto-democracy : A decentralized voting scheme using blockchain technology. SECRYPT. editor / Pierangela Samarati ; Mohammad S. Obaidat ; Mohammad S. Obaidat. SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, 2018. pp. 508-513 (ICETE 2018 - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, Vol. 2).

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Srivastava, G, Dwivedi, AD & Singh, R 2018, Crypto-democracy: A decentralized voting scheme using blockchain technology. in P Samarati, MS Obaidat & MS Obaidat (eds), SECRYPT. SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, ICETE 2018 - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, vol. 2, pp. 508-513, 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2018, Porto, Portugal, 26/07/2018. https://doi.org/10.5220/0006881905080513

Crypto-democracy: A decentralized voting scheme using blockchain technology. / Srivastava, Gautam; Dwivedi, Ashutosh Dhar; Singh, Rajani.
SECRYPT. ed. / Pierangela Samarati; Mohammad S. Obaidat; Mohammad S. Obaidat. SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, 2018. p. 508-513 (ICETE 2018 - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, Vol. 2).

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