The development of an electronic voting system that would replace traditional election procedures is a research topic of great interest for many years. Blockchain technology could provide some guarantees and fulfill strong requirements for electronic voting platforms, such as transparency, immutability, and confidentiality. From time to time research is conducted to address problems in voting systems. Many research works attempt to implement secure and reliable voting systems, which address known security, anonymity, and fraud issues that might threaten such systems. This paper presents a proposal of a secure electronic voting system, the EtherVote, using the Ethereum Blockchain network that focuses deeply on the field of identification of eligible citizens. The proposed system will be entirely based on Blockchain without any central authority servers or databases, thus improving security, privacy, and election cost. Limitations, problems, and solutions are discussed, in order to make the proposed electronic voting system ideal and ready to use for national elections.

翻译：开发能够取代传统选举程序的电子投票系统，是多年来备受关注的研究课题。区块链技术能够为电子投票平台提供透明性、不可篡改性和机密性等保障，满足其严格要求。针对投票系统中存在的问题，研究人员不时开展相关研究工作。许多研究致力于实现安全可靠的投票系统，以应对可能威胁系统的已知安全问题、匿名性和欺诈问题。本文提出了一种安全的电子投票系统方案——EtherVote，该系统利用以太坊区块链网络，并深度聚焦于合格公民身份识别领域。所提出的系统将完全基于区块链，无需任何中央权威服务器或数据库，从而提升了安全性、隐私性并降低了选举成本。为使所提出的电子投票系统成为适用于全国选举的理想就绪方案，本文讨论了其局限性、存在的问题及相应的解决方案。