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An enhanced security mechanism through blockchain for E-polling/counting process using IoT devices

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One of the biggest challenges in political mayhem is visible during the election process where no stone is kept unturned in order to gain the power. Further, due to poll violence and waiting in the long queues to cast their votes, numbers of common citizens avoid the voting process completely in order to evade the chaos. In order to reduce these issues or to increase the voting rate, number of smart based or IoT enabled voting applications has been projected by various authors. However, IoT devices can be easily compromised or hacked by the experts (intruders) in order to gain their own access. Therefore, to ensure an enhanced secure and transparent polling process, Blockchain plays a vital role in ensuring the legit votes and their counting without their manipulation in any way. It is also needed in today’s times where the world is available to people in their IoT or smart devices to also give them the opportunity to register their votes hassle free via their smart devices without having to worry about the system getting hacked. Therefore, in this paper, the proposed layout will be based on an enhanced security through Blockchain in E-voting application using IoT devices where the user will create an account with proper verification done via voter id and other biometric methods on a smart device. Every transaction done via this account which in this case will be registering vote will be validated by a miner. The proposed Blockchain mechanism for E-polling using IoT devices is again validated and verified through several parameters such as response time, resource utilization and request processed.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Vasavi Engineering College, Tadepalligudem, Andhra Pradesh, India

    R. Krishnamurthy

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, 173234, H.P, India

    Geetanjali Rathee

  3. Department of Electronics and Communication, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, 173234, H.P, India

    Naveen Jaglan

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Krishnamurthy, R., Rathee, G. & Jaglan, N. An enhanced security mechanism through blockchain for E-polling/counting process using IoT devices. Wireless Netw 26, 2391–2402 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-019-02112-5

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