Volume 7, Issue 11, November – 2022 International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology ISSN No:-2456-2165 IJISRT22NOV1016 www.ijisrt.com 1086 E-Voting System Using Blockchain Prof. Vishal Polara 1 , Pranav Baraiya 2 , Harsh Ajudia 3 , Harshil Buha 4 , Harsh Kadivar 5 12345 Information Technology Department Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Anand, Gujarat, India Abstract: Democratic voting is a crucial and serious event in any place, the current election scheme in any place, be it a school college, or even a country is done through ballot papers or using EVM. This process has many disad- vantages such as transparency, low voter turnout, vote tampering, lack of trust in electoral authorities, delay in results, and above all security issues. So the growing digital technology has helped many people's lives nowadays. The concept of electronic voting is introduced to combat the disadvantages of the traditional voting system. Electronic voting is essentially an electronic means of casting and counting votes. It is an efficient and cost-effective way of conducting a voting procedure that is data-rich and real- time and requires high security. Nowadays, concerns about the security of networks and the privacy of commu- nications for electronic voting have increased. Thus, the provision of electronic voting is very urgent and is becom- ing a popular topic in communication and networking. One way to solve security problems is blockchain. The pa- per proposes a new blockchain-based electronic voting sys- tem that addresses some of the limitations in existing sys- tems and evaluates some of the popular blockchain frame- works to create a blockchain-based electronic voting sys- tem. Because the blockchain stores its data in a decentral- ized manner, the implementation result shows that it is a practical and secure electronic voting system that solves the problem of vote forgery in electronic voting. Keywords: Blockchain, Ethereum, Decentralized, Digitiza- tion, Secure Voting, Facial Recognition. I. INTRODUCTION Blockchain technology is shining sort of a star these days when its entry and wide-spread adoption of Bitcoin, the terri- bly initial cryptocurrency that involves people's minds. Block- chain technology originates from the fundamental subject style of the bitcoin cryptocurrency, wherever it absolutely was initial introduced to the net world and previously became a promising technology thanks to the high degree of transpar- ency within the system, turning into a vigorous space of anal- ysis and study for its varied applications. alternative fields. Blockchain, simply put, may be a shared, changeless ledger that facilitates the method of recording transactions and following assets in a very business network. Associate in Nursing quality are often tangible (house, car, cash, land) or intangible (intellectual property, patents, copyrights, brand- ing). during this era nearly we are able to track and trade some- thing on a blockchain network, reducing prices and risk for everybody. Blockchain stores its knowledge in blocks. First, all the info to be keep within the blockchain is reborn into smaller components, that square measure allotted to totally different blocks within the suburbanized network. The initial block in a very blockchain is understood as a "Genesis Block" or "Block 0". "Block Gene-sis" or "Block 0". The genesis block is sometimes hard-coded into software; is peculiar therein it doesn't contain a link to the previous block. The gen- esis block is sometimes hard-coded into the software; it's spe- cial therein it doesn't contain a regard to the previous block (the Genesis block). Fig 1: Hash Table Ref. [1] Once the genesis block is initialized, "Block 1" is created and when completed is attached to the genesis block. Each block has a transaction data part, a copy of each of the trans- actions is hashed and then the hashes are matched and hash again, this continues until there is only one hash left; to known as the Merkle root (Figure 1). The block header is where the Merkle root is stored, which ensures that the transaction can- not be modified by third parties. Before 2004 there was a paper-primarily based totally vote casting device referred to as ballot paper device in India. Ref. [2]So, to eliminate all the shortcomings of the traditional vot- ing system, the blockchain fits as the best suitable solution for the e-voting platform. Electronic voting is extensively studied and many implementations are tested and even used for a while where we encountered some problems like user authen- tication, vote tempering, etc. Of course, there are many gov- ernment websites like polls, networks to gain knowledge about new government schemes, questionnaires where common peo- ple raise their questions, etc. still we can't say the same for online elections because every vote matters here for a candi- date so the system needs to be more secure, reliable and au- thentic. This is mainly because official elections are the basic elements of democracy and democratic governance which is the most preferred administrative methodology in the modern world. The electronic voting system will be a new change from the regular voting system, which is less complicated, and more open to the voters, and besides, security will come first. These