DIGIVOTE - Decentralized Electronic Voting System

A brief description of what this project does and who it's for

Problem Statement

Security of digital voting is a big concern, and this can affect the integrity of the democratic process. Voter fraud has also been an issue in the democractic process most importantly wher digital voting has been used whereby non-authenticated users are still permitted to vote, or the digital tool is being manipulated. This in general and more have put a dent on the democratic process.

Aim of the project

Eliminate voter fraud
secure and decentralised voting system
Anonymity and Integrity

Documentation

Deployment

This project consist of 3 part(ReactJs, NodeJs/ExpressJs, Solidty/Truffle) which must run simultenously

Prerequisites

Install these prerequisites:

NPM: https://nodejs.org
Truffle: https://github.com/trufflesuite/truffle
Ganache: http://truffleframework.com/ganache/
MongoDB Compass: https://www.mongodb.com/products/compass

Step One

Clone this project git clone https://github.com/deluxscript/digivote.git

Step 1.1

Clone the backend folder in another directory git clone https://github.com/deluxscript/digiVoteBackend.git

Step 1.2 - OPTIONAL

Open and install MongoDB Compass, Copy the mongoURI string in the root folder /digiVoteBackend/config/default.json to the new connection field so visualize all data coming in

Step 1.3

Run npm start to start the backend server on port 8080

Step two

Install all dependenciies

$ cd digivote
$ npm install

Step Three

Open the install Genache GUI, the GUI comes with 10 addresses with 100ETH balance each

Step Four

On the terminal from /digivote directory, run the following command to deploy the smart contract

$ truffle migrate --reset This must be done at every attempt Genache is restarted

Step Five

Create .env file in the root folder to store two ethereum address using the below variable

REACT_APP_DIGIVOTE_ELECTORAL_BODY_ADDRESS= {ANY ADRESS FROM GENACHE ACOUNT}
REACT_APP_DIGIVOTE_VOTER_ADDRESS= {ANY ADRESS FROM GENACHE ACOUNT excluding the one used above}

Step Six

Start the application npm start on port 3000, visit browser at http://localhost:3000