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ElectionBlock: An Electronic Voting System using Blockchain and Fingerprint Authentication

2021· article· en· W3162491132 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicInternet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Canadian institutionsOntario Tech University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceComputer securityVotingBlockchainBallotElectronic votingScalabilityAuthentication (law)BiometricsImmutabilityCryptographyDatabase

Abstract

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Voting is the method of choice used to make a large number of democratic decisions amongst many groups of people. Regardless of whether the method is used in professional or casual scenarios, it provides a fair and efficient way to determine a decision based on the majority. In smaller groups, keeping track of voter decisions is not a difficult task, however, in situations where there are hundreds of thousands of voters, keeping a precise record of voter decisions becomes important and more difficult. The advancements in blockchain technology provide a potential solution to the record-keeping problem of contemporary voting procedures, as blockchain technology by design, excels in applications where multiple users are working on immutable data. In this paper we discuss the design and development of ElectionBlock, a voting system that provides its own blockchain, running on a centralized network of nodes, with the integration of a biometric scanner, to maintain vote integrity and distinguish between registered and unregistered voters. This scheme allows data immutability while providing the user with security and control over their ballot. Experimental results demonstrate the potential for scalability of the system to handle a high volume of votes from multiple servers while maintaining data integrity, performance, and security. This paper will address the considerations taken to develop and implement the centralized and independent blockchain network for use as a voting platform with the integration of biometrics for the purpose of enhanced user security.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.988
Threshold uncertainty score0.441

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it