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The Smart Contract based Voting Model for Internet Community Election

  • Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
  • Abbr : JKIOTS
  • 2019, 5(2), pp.67-72
  • Publisher : The Korea Internet of Things Society
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science > Internet Information Processing
  • Received : September 13, 2019
  • Accepted : December 12, 2019
  • Published : December 31, 2019

SungHyun Yun 1

1백석대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

As Internet voting can take place regardless of a voter’s location, the participation rate of the voters would be increased and economic costs will be reduced. But the drawback of it is that all participants have to trust the election management server. If the server colludes with the specific candidate, the other candidates cannot prove rigged election. In addition, majority of researches on Internet voting are mainly focused on the voting restricted by the region and the country. Thus, it’s not appropriate for the election in Internet community such as YouTube channels. As the Internet community is composed of members from all around the world, the new type of voting model is needed. In this study, we propose the smart contract based Internet voting model applicable on the blockchain network. The proposed smart contract model consists of candidate registration, voter registration, voting and counting stages. In the proposed model, anonymity of the voter is assured in the voter registration and voting stages, and all candidates can confirm the fairness of the election in the counting stage.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.