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An Intelligent Blockchain-Oriented Digital Voting System Using NEAR Protocol

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According to today’s social environment, implementing a secure digital system is a challenging task; a traditional voting system (i.e., ballot system) does not offer ambiguity regarding the counting of electoral votes. Voting frauds may fail because of many reasons like pooling booth fraud, and fake voter IDs, so to solve this problem, we need a secured digital voting system, and the best solution implemented is Blockchain. This technique conquers all the problems of the traditional voting system. And this technology is used to provide a highly secure, decentralized, and provide P2P network to verify, process, and record all persons. This opens all possibilities to construct a secure network as well as a decentralized system that does not need third-party involvement. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to implement blockchain NEAR protocol for digital voting systems. In this paper, our main aim is to build a secure digital voting system based on this blockchain protocol which offers the privacy of a person, security, flexibility, and fairness of the current voting scheme. It also decreases the cost of hosting a countrywide election.

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    Snehlata, Pallavi Shukla, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Saloni Tiwari,  Rishabh & Vijay Kumar Dwivedi

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Snehlata, Shukla, P., Singh, A.K. et al. An Intelligent Blockchain-Oriented Digital Voting System Using NEAR Protocol. SN COMPUT. SCI. 4, 643 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-02038-y

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