Enhancing the Protection of Information in Digital Voting Using the Fraud Application of Blockchain Technology

Abstract

Elections are conducted electronically instead of using paper ballots to cut down on mistakes and discrepancies. Recently, it has been discovered that paper-based balloting fails owing to security and privacy difficulties, and the electronic balloting approach has been recommended as a replacement. For the sake of keeping your data safe, the authors have designed and developed a hashing algorithm based on SHA-256. The blockchain's adaptability is aided by the sealing of the block concept's incorporation. Consortium blockchain technology is employed to ensure that only the election commission has access to the blockchain database, which candidates and other outside parties cannot modify. When used in the polling method, the methodology discussed in this chapter can yield reliable findings. The authors used a hashing algorithm (SHA-256), block generation, data collection, and result declaration to get to this point.