Modernizing Voting Systems: A Comprehensive Approach Using Blockchain, Biometrics and Zero Knowledge Proofs
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https://doi.org/10.62146/ijecbe.v3i3.116Keywords:
Blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric, Chaincode, Electronic Voting Machine. ZKPs, Biometric featuresAbstract
This research article provides the design of an in-person and remote voting system, while at the same time ensuring the privacy of users that would guarantee openness, transparency, and at the same time fraud-free results. The aim is to solve various common problems associated with most conventional elections including fraud, vote manipulation, through adaptation of the usage of a safe, highly transparent decentralized logical Hyperledger Fabric-based system provided by blockchain implementation. The methodology in this article is to be implemented for the sheer reason of urgency needed in making a more secure and transparent system for voting, considering even the rising frauds in elections. The addition of Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) guarantees that votes are confident and correct, yet anonymous between a voter and their vote. Biometric identification makes the system resistant to double spending. This incorporation of technologies ensures there is privacy and immutability against the double
transactions, which, in turn, would be put in place as foundation for the future to be provided wherein every process in an election becomes safe and transparent. Innovation via creating a voting system to be trusted to meet today's demands and set standards for future electoral processes.
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