Blockchain Enabled Privacy- Preserved Secure e-voting System for Smart Cities

Abstract

In today's world, voting online is becoming increasingly popular. It has a lot of power to reduce administrative costs and increase the number of voters. Eliminates the need for ballot papers or polling stations, allowing citizens to vote anywhere via the Internet. Apart from these benefits, online voting methods are viewed with extreme caution as they pose additional risks. One mistake can easily lead to disaster. When used in elections, electronic voting systems must be legitimate, accurate, secure, and competent. However, the ability to have difficulty with computer voting methods can reduce acceptance. Blockchain technology is created to address these concerns and provides separate nodes for electronic voting. It is used to create electronic voting systems because of its ultimate verification benefits. With distributed, non-disposable features, and security protection, this technology is a great way to establish common electronic voting solutions. Blockchain is a system where each item is treated as a block, with a link that connects all these blocks, hence the name Block-Chain. Each block contains all possible data for one business, as well as a timestamp and, in exceptional cases, once. The hashing function is used to determine the hash value of all data in a block. All data blocks are accelerated with the same function. The field across all blockchain blocks contains the precedent block address. Improving security Face recognition is used. Face recognition helps to ensure that the voter is legal or not. It helps election planners identify fraudulent voters and removes them from participating in the voting process. Voting with E using the blockchain facilitates the proper distribution of votes and ensures the security of total data throughout the process. It makes the election clean and protects the vote of the affected people.