Secure Electronic Voting System

Authors: Abdul Huq, Ankit Pandey, Sonam Bajpai, Vinay Tiwari, Professor (Dr.) Sunil Dhore

Abstract: The implementation of electronic voting systems presents the opportunity to enhance accessibility and efficiency in democracy. However, security matters such as authentication of voters, ensuring the integrity of votes cast, and protection against data tampering still pose serious problems. Voting car- ried out through paper ballots and centralized computerized voting systems suffer from voting fraud and manipulation of votes. This paper proposes a Secure Electronic Voting System which addresses these gaps and improves transparency and trust in elections. The system incorporates distributed storage, cryptographic hash functions, and multi-factor authentication. To guarantee the integrity of votes, cryptographic hash functions are incorporated to make them un-changeable. With multi-factor authentication, the authorized voters are verified. Utilization of blockchain technology for distributed storage protects the system from single point of failure. Voter information and confidentiality of vote is encrypted with AES and RSA, while tallying the votes is conducted through homomorphic encryption, enabling counting without decryption. The results of performance assessment showed that processing efficiency remains at a high level while enhancing security of the system significantly, thus creating the possibility for clear, verifiable and tamper-proof elections.