"Blockchain Voting Systems, Security, and Integrity Considerations"

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Friends, as we all know, the advent of blockchain technology is increasing massively all over the world, and that is why it is revolutionising many industries, from the health sector to finance and digital voting systems too. In almost every industry, blockchain technology plays a vital role in maintaining the integrity and security of the platforms.

So in voting systems, traditional systems such as paper voting and electronic voting lead to several issues, including security, transparency, tempering, and fraud. But blockchain technology provides a prominent solution to all these issues due to its unique properties and provides an opportunity for fair voting.

Now a days, most of the developing countries have successfully introduced blockchain technology into their voting systems to prevent all the fraud and voting buying that leads to major destruction to the economy and integrity of that country. But blockchain technology, due to its decentralisation and transparency, provides a way to address all these challenges.

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Here, the different features of blockchain technology are combined, which makes the voting systems fair and temper-proof. Among them, the decentralisation and temperature resistance properties of blockchain networks are at the at the top of the list. This is because, due to decentralisation, no single authority can manage the whole system as each and every event is controlled by different nodes.

These nodes are spread throughout the whole system with the help of distributed ledgers, which ensure that no failure will occur within the network. Also, due to the presence of the temper-proof feature, when a vote is cast, it can't be reversed, deleted, or altered. This is because, due to the presence of decentralisation, each vote is recorded online within the network.

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_Freepik

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Also, with the help of blockchain technology and a decentralised system, the chances of multi-voting are reduced to none, as a single person can record his vote only once. All these things combined make the voting systems fair and temper-proof. Besides this, transparency also plays a crucial role in enhancing people's trust in voting.

This is because, with the help of blockchain, the votes are recorded online in the form of transactions that are visible to everyone, and the anonymity of the vote casters remains the same. That level of transparency and anonymity, at the same time, enhances privacy and prevents fraud and other unusual activities.

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Furthermore, blockchain technology provides us with a seamless and quicker way of voting, as it reduces the effort of vote counting just like traditional or paper voting systems. This is because, due to the presence of decentralisation, each and every vote is counted by the computer or nodes of the distributed ledger. In this way, it also prevents fake vote counts.

The blockchain-based voting systems are easily accessible to everyone, as people who are living in remote areas, out of country, or at any other place can cast their votes online, which will definitely increase the vote count. And also, in this way, it reduces the efforts of people to travel to a certain place to cast their vote, just like in paper voting systems.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we can say that blockchain technology provides us with a prominent solution to address the privacy, anonymity, and integrity of voting systems. Due to all these things, it can be helpful in conducting fair elections in any country. According to me, the government should use blockchain technology to hold fair and temper-proof elections to prevent fraud, fake voting systems, and other unusual activities too.

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Written by @abdullahw2

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