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Large-Scale Electronic Voting Based on Conflux Consensus Mechanism

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Blockchain voting can bring many practical benefits. It is said that blockchain technology represents a revolution in security and transparency that makes electronic voting possible. It will undoubtedly have an unexpected and far-reaching impact on future democracy. Electronic voting can accelerate, simplify and reduce the cost of elections, and even lead to more participation and development into stronger democracies. Firstly, this paper analyses the problems existing in the current blockchain voting system, then introduces the concept and principle of Conflux consensus mechanism. Based on blockchain technology and ring signature, a large-scale voting electronic voting scheme integrating the advantages of Conflux consensus mechanism with blockchain voting system is proposed, which is decentralized, self-managed, non-interactive and free of charge.

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This work is supported by the National Cryptography Development Fund of China Under Grants No. MMJJ20170112, the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of china (Grant Nos. 2018JM6028), National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61772550, 61572521, U1636114, 61402531), National Key Research and Development Program of China Under Grants No. 2017YFB0802000. This work is also supported by Innovation Team Research Fund No. KYTD201805 of Engineering University of People’s Armed Police Force.

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Xiao, S., Wang, X.A., Wang, H. (2020). Large-Scale Electronic Voting Based on Conflux Consensus Mechanism. In: Barolli, L., Xhafa, F., Hussain, O. (eds) Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing . IMIS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 994. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22263-5_28

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