Building a Robust Distributed Voting System Using Consortium Blockchain

The traditional ballot system and the electronic voting system has been used all over the world for a while now but it has numerous flaws. This paper put forth those flaws viz. voter verification, security, transparency, mobility, flexibility and operational cost. Overview of blockchain and unraveling its potential to overcome these flaws is followed. The process of carrying out the entire election process right from voter and contestant registration, till the end result calculation is depicted both technically and functionally based on consortium blockchain model. Potential challenges and their solutions involved in building such a robust and fault-tolerant software system are brainstormed. The motive of this paper is to suggest why a decentralized voting system built using a novel approach by leveraging blockchain is significantly better than current systems and how to build one by elucidating the architecture and pseudocode for the same.