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+# E-Voting
+
+This repo contains the work done on the project Facial recognition based voting on Ethereum blockchain as a part of my summer internship.
+The central idea was to remove the need for a central authority for vote collection and maintenance which is one of the main reasons 
+cited for voting not being trusted completely, as the votes can be rigged in bulk.
+
+We see blockchain can help in this space. Providing security, decentralization, and incentivization, it allows individuals to contribute to the blockchain network and keep it safe from a single source of power.
+While there is no problem with using blockchain technology for voting, we tried making it more convenient for people to vote through a smartphone.
+Of course there are some drawbacks to this approach, for example, it can result in an unwanted breach of rights to vote during the time of voting.
+
+But it is workable around with advances in AI to study face-recognition, human genomics, etc. The concept of voting through a smartphone is somewhat practical and makes 
+sense as an individual saves a lot of time and effort, an institution saves its resources and also help in declining of riots as seen during election time.
+Also, this allows people to vote remotely which through traditional method isn't possible.
+
+## Entities and components
+The ethereum network is consists of accounts. These accounts has addresses associated with them. The addresses in our project are
+of Election authority, Voters, Candidates in the election, and the smart contract.
+
+
+### 1.Election Authority
+There is a central entity who issues the election. This particular account has some more options than rest. This account is responsible for issuing a new election, registering voters and giving voting rights to voters.
+Election authority has an admin dashboard made with ReactJs, Web3JS and the election can be deployed on Rinkeby test net.
+The election authority can also see results of the election in real-time.
+
+### 2. Voters
+Voters are the end-users here, they can interact with the blockchain via a smartphone. The process involves authentication with confirming voterid and then  Facial recognition using Viola-Jones algorithm.
+------- Why this algo is the right choice
+
+Once the voter logs in, he/she has only one chance to cast a vote for one of the registered parties. Once the transaction is completed the voter is logged out of the application.
+This way the voters cannot revote or rig anyone's vote.
+
+### 3.Candidates
+The candidates are merely treated as accounts has addresses and political parties associated with them. These votes received by the political parties are fetched by the election authority.
+
+
+### 4.Smart Contract
+The smart contract is written in solidity and deployed with truffle framework. The contract contains all the set of rules for any transaction for this project.
+This is minimal but suitable enough to issue different types of elections in Colleges, private organizations and even for governance.
+It can be optimized further and can be varied in complexity.
+
+## The Flow
+The flow of the project is similar to what we see in everyday life. 
+1. The election authority registers Candidates and gives voting rights to voters present on the network.
+2. The voters vote for candidates/parties.
+3. Voting ends and election authority reviews results.
+
+Altering the votes is not possible as per the consensus mechanisms used by different blockchains, 'proof of work' works fine.
+
+## Implementation
+Implementation of Admin Dashboard and Android app for voting can be found [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/103hue4pyO6MGW8CbTU8Xw1C1H2PD7Ybl?usp=sharing).