Self organizing blockchain enabled security framework for online voting

Abstract

Online voting guarantees to improve the democratic participation as it allows to cast the votes from remote locations. It is one of the cost effective solution that speeds up the tallying process and helps in increasing voter turnout. The security aspect of online voting is a vital significance. A robust online voting system has to address the requirements namely Authenticity, Confidentiality, Integrity, Anonymity, Accuracy, Availability, Receipt-freeness, Verifiability, Transparency and Eligibility. The main objective of the research is to investigate on the existing mechanisms and design secure online voting framework to achieve Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. The framework is a collection of classes, objects and their collaborations that enable large scale reuse by capturing an abstract design and the core implementation for a domain from which a range of specific applications can then be derived. Software frameworks offer reusability of both design and implementation. The primary benefits of frameworks stem from the modularity, reusability and extensibility they provide to developers. In this research, the domain framework constitutes online voting components and the service framework constitutes security components. Online voting system consists of Pre election Phase, Election Phase and Post election Phase. The Pre election phase deals with registration of the voter. The Election Phase consists of two stages Authentication and Voting stage and Post Election Phase deals with counting stage newline