Blockchain Electronic Vote

Abstract Existing electronic voting systems rely on a proprietary and centralized design by a single supplier who controls the code base, the database, and the system outputs and supplies the monitoring tools at the same time. They lack an open-source, independently verifiable output to gain the confidence required by voters and election organizers. This chapter describes how to leverage the availability of the Bitcoin blockchain as a secure transaction database, to log votes and audit vote results. The proposed solution provides transparency for candidates and voters to verify the electoral register and vote count while protecting the secrecy of the votes.