Blockchain Based, Biometric Voter Verification Electronic Voting

ELECTION is a process of establishing democracy in the country. It is also one of the most challenging task, one whose constraints are remarkably strict. There has been the extensive adoption of Direct-recording electronic (DRE) for voting at polling stations around the world. Starting with the seminal work by Chaum, published in IEEE Security & Privacy in 2004, research on end-to-end (E2E) E-voting has become a thriving field. Informally, the notion of being E2E verifiable refers to have two properties: First, each voter is able to verify if their vote has been cast as intended, recorded as cast. Second, anyone can verify if all votes are tallied as recorded. By contrast, in the traditional paper-based voting system, a voter cannot verify how their vote is recorded and tallied in the voting process. In traditional voting process, a voter goes to polling station and shows his/her voter Identity card and after finding his/her name in eligible voters list he is a given to vote the candidate of his choice.In the case of EVM(Electronic Voting Machine) their security is a big challenge before the officials. Thus the system depends on the trustworthy individual at the polling stations and during counting, thus leading to the introduction of the automated paperless secure e-voting system.

This project mainly focuses on developing an E-Voting system which is much more secure, verifiable and does not involve the requirement of too many trustworthy individuals at every level.We aim at using Blockchain to make voting much secure and also using ring signature and Fingerprint Authentication for additional security.

Key Words: Blockchain, Secure Voting, Biometric Voting