THE UTILIZATION OF BLOCKCHAIN IN BUILDING A DECENTRALIZEDVOTING SYSTEM.

Abstract

In this era of development and technology, the need for a more advanced voting system is imminent, this study aims to develop a decentralized voting system that would be used to conduct elections by elucidating requirements needed in the systems’ development, designing the system based on the elucidating requirements, developing and test running the system. This system uses a reuse-oriented process model in development, the emancipation of blockchain and its application in building this system highlights all the benefits of this technology. The ethereum blockchain was used in this project to create a blockchain environment that the transactions would be processed and a smart contract that defined how the architectural structure of the system would be defined. After implementation of this project, a student body presidential election was conducted to great success, showing an improved workflow and how it serves as a better alternative to the already existing voting systems. The result of this system highlights the main benefit if using blockchain as part of its architecture, ensuring security and trust. In conclusion, blockchain technology can be used to strengthen the security of system and can be used as a data protection tool if applied toward the right domain. The system built in this project has already eliminated most of the flaws seen in traditional voting system but can be improved on. A further research into adding a better identification system would be greatly encouraged.