BIDS: Blockchain Based Intrusion Detection System for Electoral Process

Vote theft and fraud is a deliberate activity which is predominantly perpetrated at every level of electoral process by misrepresenting the actual value of vote count either manually or electronically. The emergence of technology within voting system remains a welcome development because of the comfort and speed it offer, however remains vulnerable to cyber-attack and has failed to deliver a trusted and reliable system. Therefore, blockchain technology in this paper is proposed at election result collation stages to ensure that result counted remains unchanged from the lower collation edge to the final stage of collation and announcement. In this paper, we examine the influence of technology on electoral system, e-voting system its pros and cons, which forms the basis for undertaking this work and the blockchain technology and its application of election result collation.