Blockchain-Based Electronic Voting System: Significance and Requirements
Table 2
Comparison of traditional voting, electronic voting, and blockchain-based e-voting.
Voting systems
Advantages
Disadvantages
Traditional voting
-Presents high familiarity among voters.
-Not easy to access for voters from remote areas. -Costly. -Vulnerable to tampering of voting results or electoral fraud. -Prone to voter threat and intimidation. -Subject to human error.
Electronic voting
-Reusable for various elections. -Cheaper in long.
-Prone to hacks. -Less transparent than the blockchain-based e-voting system. -Less reliable. -Prone to rejection by technology-agnostic users.
Blockchain-based e-voting
-Potentiality extra secure, more transparent, and private. -Offers verifiable, secure, and auditable options in the electoral process. -Scalable to a large-scale election in terms of the number of participants and the response time. -Presents immutable and fixed records. -Faster voting ballot count.
