A Survey on Electronic Voting On Blockchain

Public elections are a basic tenet of representative democracy but most current voting methods e.g., Ballot-based voting and Electronic Voting Machines are riddled with drawbacks such as a lack of trust from voters and poor voter turnouts. Blockchain voting addresses the limitations in these legacy-voting methods by serving as a secure, easy, and cost-effective alternative to these voting methods while also having various other upsides (like quicker vote tallying). This paper analyses the underlying technology of Blockchain and compares various proposed implementations available to date