Blockchain and smart contract enabled smart and secure electronic voting system Online publication date: Wed, 05-Apr-2023
by Kailash Chandra Bandhu; Ratnesh Litoriya; Murtaza Bagwala; Alakmar Barwaniwala; Manas Garg
International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG), Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023
Abstract: Building an electronic voting system is a prime requirement of a government election system to avoid the manipulation in the voting machines and make them more secure and efficient. There is a need of cost-efficient, time-saving, and trusted voting system. Blockchain technology is a revolutionary method that provides decentralised, distributed, and immutable ledgers features. The proposed work utilised this recent technology along with smart contract and keccak256 encryption algorithm to implement vote casting. The performance of the system is measured based on the execution time of the smart contract, average voting time per user, and the hidden and visible gas cost for smart contract deployment for voting. The results obtained come to be promising with an average execution time of 6ms per vote and the percentage of visible cost out of voting and contract deployment is 15.42% and hidden costs out of voting and contract deployment is 84.58%.
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:
Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.
If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com
Our Blog 
Follow us on Twitter 
Visit us on Facebook