Blockchain-Based Electronic Voting System for Elections in Turkey

TL;DR

This paper proposes a blockchain-based electronic voting system for Turkey that enhances security, privacy, and transparency while significantly reducing vote counting time.

Contribution

It introduces a novel blockchain voting framework that addresses security, privacy, and efficiency issues in traditional elections.

Findings

The system ensures data integrity and voter privacy.

It significantly decreases election result waiting time.

Theoretical security guarantees are provided.

Abstract

Traditional elections satisfy neither citizens nor political authorities in recent years. They are not fully secure since it is easy to attack votes. It threatens also privacy and transparency of voters. Additionally, it takes too much time to count the votes. This paper proposes a solution using Blockchain to eliminate all the disadvantages of conventional elections. Security and data integrity of votes are absolutely provided theoretically. Voter privacy is another requirement that is ensured in the system. Lastly, the waiting time for results decreased significantly in the proposed Blockchain voting system.