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Untangling E-Voting Platform for Secure and Enhanced Voting Using Blockchain Technology

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In any country or organization where an election takes place, the voting procedure plays the most vital role. It must be secure and transparent at the same point in time. The e-voting procedure adapted by many countries provides a secure solution, but whenever this much sensitive data comes in digital format, security and transparency must be the point of consideration. In this chapter, we are untangling several electronic voting issues and provide the solution for different issues by using blockchain technologies. The main concern for this chapter is to propose a secure and enhanced e-voting platform using decentralized blockchain technology so that the voting procedure can be transparent and immutable, which leads to a voting platform where the voter can have the transparency of their vote and at the same of time no one will be able to hack or manipulate the casted votes. The author also has performed and explained the comparison between the existing voting system and the proposed voting system.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HMR Institute of Technology and Management, Delhi, India

    Muskan Malhotra & Amit Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Delhi, India

    Suresh Kumar

  3. Department of Information Technology, Rajkiya Engineering College, Banda, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vibhash Yadav

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    Fadi Al-Turjman

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, G. L. Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management (GLBITM), Affiliated to AKTU, Greater Noida, India

    Satya Prakash Yadav

  3. School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Malhotra, M., Kumar, A., Kumar, S., Yadav, V. (2022). Untangling E-Voting Platform for Secure and Enhanced Voting Using Blockchain Technology. In: Al-Turjman, F., Yadav, S.P., Kumar, M., Yadav, V., Stephan, T. (eds) Transforming Management with AI, Big-Data, and IoT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86749-2_3

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