Claims:We claim:
1) A system for digital voting using block chain technology comprising of;
a. Registering the user in the internal database of the website;
b. Verification unit for Verifying the voter;
c. Receiving acknowledgement data to the voter;
d. altering the verification data using the acknowledgement data received from the voter; and
e. analyzer unit for Analyzing automated government miner the transaction.
2) The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the system analyses the transaction and if they haven’t been awarded or denied a vote, the miner will make the decision as to whether to verify the user or not.
3) The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said user if identified, a ballot card is sent with the information on the home address and email address if provided by the user and a randomly generated password to use on the polling stations.
, Description:FIELD OF THE INVENTION:
The present invention relates to a system for electronic voting. The present invention more particularly relates to a system for digital voting using block chain technology.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION:
Many challenges are faced by the manual system or mechanical system or electronic system used for voting. Traditionally manual systems have been used. For some decades mechanical systems have been used in some countries, and in recent years electronic voting systems have had their breakthrough in a number of countries. So very high standards has to be set in the process of voting, such that voters can be confident that the result of the election connect reflects the votes cast and secrecy of the votes cast shall be ensured.
Basic principles of the manual election are duplicated many times. A voter enters a voting site, where his identity is checked, after which he receives a ballot and enters a voting booth where he can vote in privacy. He then folds his ballot such that nobody can see what he has voted, enters the public sphere again and drops his ballot into a container. The whole process is monitored by a sufficiently large and diverse group of people such that it can be trusted not to cheat. The first voter have the opportunity to verify that the container is initially empty and it may be possible to regret the choice in the time span between entering the choice on the ballot and dropping it into the container. After the election the votes are counted. Throughout the whole process it is ensured that at every step everything is monitored by a group of people sufficiently large and diverse to be trusted.
Mechanical and electronic voting systems follow the same principles. The core element in the design of such systems is that the process shall be changed as little as possible when introducing a new system. For example DRE (Direct Recording Engine) e- voting systems, store individual votes on a memory card such that they can be counted afterwards instead of just keeping track on the statistics to be reported. When using electronic devices a number of properties of the original process are altered in disfavor of the security despite that the process is kept fixed. In particular the following properties are always lacking like a) the voter is no longer able to see that what he enters on the machine is actually what is recorded. b) The officials monitoring the process are no longer able to see that one vote is recorded for each voter. c) The monitoring of the counting process is no longer efficient since nobody can see what really happens during counting.
Previous electronic voting systems are provided voters with receipts which they can take away and after polls close use to confirm, by telephone or the internet. However such a system can lack transparency and it is preferable, not to depart so far from a conventional paper-based or manual voting system. Manual systems are by means perfect despite their relative transparency and there is scope for corruption which is detected without fairly extensive recounts.
Another possible risk is for an attacker to directly infect the servers though malware being placed on the DVDs used to set up the servers and transfer the votes. (Springall et al., 2014) However, this report has also come under criticism from the Estonian Information Systems Authority.
There is therefore a need for electronic voting systems which provide security and integrity but which nonetheless will engender public trust.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION:
An object of the present invention is to provide a system provide security and integrity but which nonetheless will engender public trust.
Another object of the present invention is to provide transparency through voting system.
Other objects and benefits of the present invention will be more apparent from the following description, which is not intended to bind the scope of the present invention.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
Accordingly, a system digital voting using block chain technology is disclosed. The present invention helps providing security and integrity. A system for digital voting using block chain technology comprising of;
a. Registering the user in the internal database of the website;
b. Verification unit for Verifying the voter;
c. Receiving acknowledgement data to the voter;
d. altering the verification data using the acknowledgement data received from the voter; and
e. analyzer unit for Analyzing automated government miner the transaction.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:
Fig 1 is a system digital voting using block chain technology.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION WITH RESPECT TO DRAWINGS:
The present invention provides a system for providing security and integrity and transparency through voting system. The security issues are solved through block chain technology. The present invention use block chain voting software. In one embodiment, user registers in the internal database of the website and verification of voter is carried out for establishing security within the system. This helps in securing someone’s identity from misuse of it for fraudulent purposes. This allow users to register to vote for both postal based forms and web forms without a direct internet connection. This information includes their national identity number, postal address, optional email address and a password. All this information forms a transaction for the user which is created on the voter block chain which is different from vote block chain. If someone has registered, an automated government miner analyses the transaction and if they haven’t been awarded or denied a vote the miner will make the decision as to whether to verify the user or not. If user is identified, a ballot card is sent with the information on the home address and email address if provided by the user. They will be sent a randomly generated password to use on the polling stations.
Miner will create a transaction giving the user a vote from an infinite government pool of votes on the voter block chain. during this process, a voter blockchain is used to keep a record of both transactions taking place at each stage of this process for each voter: 1. firstly, a transaction is created when a user ‘registers’. 2. the next transaction is created when a government miner authorizes that user’s right to vote. after the correspondence is received by the user they can then await voting to open to use their credentials to vote. it is important to note that this voter block chain will never contain details of the vote cast by the user.
The network is a multi-tiered, which houses the two distinct block chains, the network is divided into three abstract tiers, National, Constituency and Local. The local tier contains all the digital polling stations across the country, each of which is associated to a constituency node. These nodes would be directly connected to each other and to a subset of polling stations depending on location. Independent bodies will monitor and audit the voting process. These bodies will host or have access to a national node and will be able to verify that the unencrypted results match the encrypted votes. These individuals will also act as miners during counting process.
In one embodiment, a system for digital voting using block chain technology comprising of;
f. Registering the user in the internal database of the website;
g. Verifying the voter;
h. Receiving acknowledgement data to the voter;
i. altering the verification data using the acknowledgement data received from the voter; and
j. Analyzing automated government miner the transaction.
In another embodiment, the data is segregated within the block chain. This segregation has been achieved by getting the constituency level nodes to generate keys pairs. The public keys are then distributed to the connected polling station nodes, which then use the public key to encrypt any vote made to that polling station. The data is then stored in an encrypted format within the block chain and propagates out to the entire network.