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There are various methods and approaches to electronic voting all around the world. Each is connected with different benefits and issues. One of the most important and prevalent problems is lack of auditing capabilities and system verification methods. Blockchain technology, which recently gained a lot of attention, can provide a solution to this issue. This paper presents Auditable Blockchain Voting System (ABVS), which describes e-voting processes and components of a supervised internet voting system that is audit and verification capable. ABVS achieves this through utilization of blockchain technology and voter-verified paper audit trail.
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Pawlak, M., Guziur, J., Poniszewska-Marańda, A. (2019). Voting Process with Blockchain Technology: Auditable Blockchain Voting System. In: Xhafa, F., Barolli, L., Greguš, M. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems. INCoS 2018. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98557-2_21
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