A Liquid Democracy Enabled Blockchain-Based Electronic Voting System

Table 1

Comparison of traditional, normal, and blockchain-based e-voting system.

Traditional	E-voting system	Blockchain-based e-voting system
Paper-based	Electronic system	Electronic system
Physical or locally deployed system	Completely centralized system	Distributed system
Forged entries, counting problems, security issues	Vulnerable, mutable	Immutable, secured
The physical presence of voters and polling agents required in polling stations	E-voting machines, web connectivity is necessary	Web connectivity, as well as ICT infrastructure
On each election, the operating costs of papers and ballots are required	Operating costs are required for the first time	One-time ICT infrastructure operating cost
Huge political influence	Lack of political influence	No political influence (every node is represented by hash)
Transparency is lacking	More transparency	Greater transparency
Lengthy procedures, delay in the output result	The output result is considerably faster	Results are shown on runtime