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ISAmI2018 2018: Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications –, 9th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence pp 323–330Cite as

On the Use of the Blockchain Technology in Electronic Voting Systems

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The benefits of blockchain go beyond its applicability in finance. Electronic Voting Systems (EVS) are considered as a way to achieve a more effective act of voting. EVS are expected to be verifiable and tamper resistant. The blockchain partially fulfills this requirements of EVS by being an immutable, verifiable and distributed record of transactions. The adoption of EVS has been hampered mainly by cultural and political issues rather than technological ones. The authors believe that blockchain is the technology that, due to the overall attention it has been receiving, is capable of fostering the adoption of EVS. In the current work we compare blockchain-based EVS, identifying their strengths and shortcomings.

This work is partially funded by the ERDF through the COMPETE 2020 Programme within project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961, and by National Funds through the FCT as part of project UID/EEA/50014/2013.

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  1. CIICESI, ESTG, Politécnico do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    João Alves & António Pinto

  2. CRACS & INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal

    António Pinto

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. ALGORITMI Centre/Departamento de Informatica, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Chung-Ang University, South Korea, Korea (Republic of)

    Jason J. Jung

  3. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Gabriel Villarrubia González

  4. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Antonio Fernández-Caballero

  5. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Elena Navarro

  6. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Pascual González

  7. Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Felgueiras, Portugal

    Davide Carneiro

  8. ESTG, Politécnico do Porto and CRACS & INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal

    António Pinto

  9. Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

    Andrew T. Campbell

  10. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Dalila Durães

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Alves, J., Pinto, A. (2019). On the Use of the Blockchain Technology in Electronic Voting Systems. In: Novais, P., et al. Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications –, 9th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence. ISAmI2018 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 806. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01746-0_38

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