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An IoT Application Based Decentralized Electronic Voting System Using Blockchain

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In 21st century, there is huge political unrests among political leaders in many developing countries, in spite of Boom of Internet users, still the elections are held in semi-old fashion. The cost associated with these elections (i.e. appliances, workforce related, transport etc.) act as burden on tax payer's money & cuts the huge possibilities of R&D in any nation. Specially in south-east nations, Indians (NRIs) move abroad for various reasons; To demonstrate the feasibility of our protocol in real-world scenarios, we have implemented it using Ethereum's blockchain as a public bulletin board. As a result, casting vote for them becomes very difficult, hence we created mechanism where NRIs can vote securely using their passports.

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    Yash Gupta, Rishabh Verma & Indrajeet Kumar

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Gupta, Y., Verma, R., Sharma, S.S.P.M.B., Kumar, I. (2024). An IoT Application Based Decentralized Electronic Voting System Using Blockchain. In: Pareek, P., Gupta, N., Reis, M.J.C.S. (eds) Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems. IC4S 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48891-7_12

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