IIT Madras, Election Commission of India to develop new voting technology
After a voter's individuality is confirmed by the system, a blockchain enabled personalised e-ballot paper (Smart Contract) will be created.
After a voter's individuality is confirmed by the system, a blockchain-enabled personalised e-ballot paper (Smart Contract) will be created. When the vote is cast (Smart Contract executed), the ballot would be safely encoded and a blockchain hashtag (#) will be created. This hashtag notification would be sent to several stakeholders, in this case--the candidates and political parties. The encoded remote votes so cast would once again be authenticated at the pre-counting stage to make sure that they have neither been decrypted, nor fiddled with or replaced.
However, IIT Madras has confirmed that it is too early to say anything about this. It would take time to provide the final prototype.
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