Development of Electronic Elections Systems: A Review

Electronic voting is fast growing rapidly and offers more benefits than traditional paper voting. The use of technology in the voting process has received a lot of attention in recent years. The existing voting systems have several security flaws, and proving even basic security characteristics regarding them is challenging. E-voting system using blockchain works as a step towards creating secure and transparent environment for elections, where the users will be able to view the total votes casted in real time without having the permission to edit after elections get over. The popularity of E-voting system is increasing in countries all over the world, for that reason this research presents a brief overview to evaluate previous national electronic voting systems in a variety of nations, how they evolved and what were their disadvantages before the appearance of blockchain technology. Then we explain the blockchain technology as well as review some of the electronic voting systems that use blockchain technology and present the strengths and weaknesses of it.