Implementing Electronic Voting System With Blockchain Technology

Elections and voting are the basic mechanisms of a democratic system. There have been various attempts to make modern elections more flexible by using digital technologies. Basic characteristics of free and fair elections are intractability, immutable, transparency and the privacy of the involved actors. This corresponds to a few of the many features of blockchain-like decentralized ownership, the immutability of chain, anonymity and distributed ledger. This work-in-progress paper attempts to do a comparative analysis of various blockchain technologies under development and propose a `Blockchain based Electronic Voting System' solution by weighing these technologies based on the need for the proposed solution. The main aim of this paper is to present a robust blockchain-based election mechanism that not only will be reliable but also flexible according to present needs.