Boxting: A Blockchain based voting system

Enzo L.P.; Rodrigo G.M.; Juan F.M. · Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Engineering International Research Conference, EIRCON 2022 (2022) · DOI: 10.1109/eircon56026.2022.9934824

Resumen

Voting is an essential part of a democratic process, from scholarly elections to presidential elections the voting process represents the choice of most voters. However, over time there have been many alerts and reports of fraud cases during important voting events using a traditional process and, as a result, the community and population have been affected in different ways. In this paper, we present Boxting, an internet-based solution using blockchain technology to boost transparency and security in elections. The main proposal of this research it's to replace traditional processes that are vulnerable to different types of fraud such as pre-filled or dumped ballot boxes, identity theft, vote rigging, vote buying, or electronic systems crashes. This new approach uses blockchain to ensure the immutability of sent data and seeks to provide confidence to electors by guaranteeing that their votes will not be changed over time. Boxting testing results in real scenarios show that this approach fits with the elections use case and it's cost-efficient compared with the current process and could be easily implemented at large-scale voting scenarios.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas