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India is a constitutional democracy, and it holds regular, free and fair elections. According to the current voting system of India, every person casts a vote using an electronic voting machine, in a voting booth. Once the voting time has elapsed, the votes are counted. However, the transparency is not maintained. There is also a possibility of system rigging and delay in results. Blockchain being a distributed ledger and a transparent system is hence a better alternative to the current voting system. This ensures a secure, reliable and decentralized voting environment. E-voting system using blockchain works as a step towards creating a secure and transparent environment for elections where the users will be able to cast their votes only once and will be able to view the total votes cast in real time without having the permission to edit the same after elections get over. The working of blockchains will ensure the votes are maintained and the systems are not rigged by any third party. The secure electronic voting system uses blockchain which is a decentralized, peer-to-peer transaction ledger. The system will create permissioned blocks from the authorized nodes where the casted votes will be considered as individual transactions. These blocks are counted, and the results are then announced.
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Pawar, M., Dabriwal, M., Rathi, R., Sinha, S.K., Pande, S.S. (2022). Blockchain-Based Decentralized Electronic Voting System. In: Nagar, A.K., Jat, D.S., MarÃn-Raventós, G., Mishra, D.K. (eds) Intelligent Sustainable Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 333. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6309-3_32
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