Blockchain Based E-voting Decentralized Application

This project is an attempt to create a robust, automated, secured E-voting System using Ethereum Blockchain technology.

Why Ethereum?

Ethereum is a platform for Smart Contracts that provides the following:

• A public communication channel (i.e. its peer to peer network).
• All communication is authenticated (i.e. transactions are signed by the voter's Ethereum address)
• An immutable public ledger to store the voting information (i.e. eligibility white list, voting keys and votes).
• Economic majority must reach consensus on a program's execution.

Types of accounts in Ethereum

What is this project about?

This is a full stack web application(frontend + backend) + crossplatform mobile application(android & ios).                        

The architecture is somewhat similar to the well known old 2 tier "client-server" model where "server" is replaced by "distributed p2p platform". From the point of view of an application programmer it is client-server where the server is a local or remote Ethereum node exposing RPC interface.

Election Stages

Election Process

Project Logo

• Behance - Seecured Logo

Prerequisite

Operating System

• Ubuntu - Linux Distribution for Development

Programming and Scripting Languages used

• Solidity
• Dart
• JavaScript
• Html & Css (Styling and Markup)

Code Editor

• Vscode
• Sublime

NPM dependencies used

• liteserver - Lightweight development for web sync
• gh-pages - Github hosting service

Web Application Prerequisites

• Truffle - Development framework
• NodeJs - Run time environment
• MetaMask - Self-hosted wallet
• Bootstrap - Potent front-end framework for UI
• Solidity - High-level language for implementing smart contract
• Remix Ethereum - Smart contract IDE and debugger

Mobile Application Prerequisites

• Flutter - SDK for building high-performance crossplatform application
• Android Studio - IDE for development

Running Local Blockchain

• Ganache - Personal local Blockchain for Ethereum development

Running on live node

• Infura - Running Ethereum node with an API key
• Go Ethereum - Geth - Running Ethereum full node

Web application

• Seecured

Installation Guidelines

To begin working on the project for development purposes, open your command (Windows) or terminal (Linux) and clone the project through the following command

git clone https://github.com/AmrAhmedA/Seecured

Install Dependencies

Dependencies	Site
Node Package Manager (NPM)	https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Ganache	https://www.trufflesuite.com/ganache
MetaMask	https://metamask.io/download.html
Flutter SDK	https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/windows
Vscode (Code Editor)	https://code.visualstudio.com/

1. After installing the node package manager, make sure you have added it to the environment variables if you are using windows OS
2. Make sure to check your node package manager version by typing the following command npm -v
3. Refer to the cloned project folder using your terminal and run npm install
4. Run npm run dev to run the web app on lite server

Future work

• Enhancing the application client-side by using SPA framework (React or angular)
• Integration with paper-based voting
• Enhancing registration phase
• Adding Extra functionalities for impaired individuals to participate in the voting process

Supervised by

• Associate Professor Abeer Hamdy
• Associate Professor Mostafa Salama