ABSTRACT
Blockchain is a relatively new technology. Although it is not entirely new, people are not very aware of it because it has not been put into use in most parts of the world. But those who have studied blockchain know about its merits and how it can help replace some old techniques and produce better results. Using blockchain for this purpose leads to several benefits, and helps in conducting elections that are fair, transparent and independently verifiable. In this paper, we present a new method of conducting elections that use the features of blockchain to achieve the desired properties of transparency, privacy and decentralization. We show how our method can be used to implement elections at the national level, especially in countries like India where a huge amount of money is spent on conducting elections.
