Enhancing E-Voting Security with Blockchain-Backed Decentralized Authorization

Electronic (e-) voting enables the voters to cast their vote electronically, resolving the challenges associated with paper ballots. E-voting system must uphold unbiasedness, maintain the privacy of the voters and assure the integrity of their cast votes. A blockchain-based e-voting system can manage these aspects properly by using the inherent security characteristics of blockchain technology. This paper proposes a blockchain-based e-voting system that (i) presents a multi-authority administrative hierarchy, (ii) develops a secure process to distribute authority among administrators, (iii) applies encryption on top of the processes of information transfer and (iv) ensures the anonymity of the voters. The effectiveness of the proposed e-voting system is also implied by experimental evaluations, analyses, comparisons with cutting- edge works etc.