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In this era of development and technology, the need for a more advanced voting
system is imminent, this study aims to develop a decentralized voting system that
would be used to conduct elections by elucidating requirements needed in the
systems’ development, designing the system based on the elucidating requirements, developing and test running the system. This system uses a reuse-oriented process model in development, the
emancipation of blockchain and its application in building this system highlights all
the benefits of this technology. The ethereum blockchain was used in this project to create a blockchain
environment that the transactions would be processed and a smart contract that
defined how the architectural structure of the system would be defined. After
implementation of this project, a student body presidential election was conducted to
great success, showing an improved workflow and how it serves as a better alternative
to the already existing voting systems. The result of this system highlights the main benefit if using blockchain as part of
its architecture, ensuring security and trust. In conclusion, blockchain technology can
be used to strengthen the security of system and can be used as a data protection tool
if applied toward the right domain. The system built in this project has already
eliminated most of the flaws seen in traditional voting system but can be improved on. A further research into adding a better identification system would be greatly
encouraged.