A Hybrid-Blockchain-Based E-Voting System: Ensuring Scalability an‎d Security in Elections

10/14/2026 12:00:00 AM

Elections, as a fundamental pillar of democracy, have always faced challenges in traditional systems, such as fraud, human error, high costs, an‎d time-consuming processes. These issues, particularly on a large scale, have eroded public trust an‎d highlighted the necessity of moving towards electronic systems. However, many existing electronic solutions still suffer from weaknesses like insufficient scalability, vulnerability to security threats, an‎d an inability to fully guarantee voter privacy. This research introduces a novel architecture based on a hybrid blockchain to address these shortcomings an‎d offer a practical an‎d efficient solution for conducting electronic elections. To this end, the capacity of a public blockchain is leveraged to create transparency an‎d public trust, while the capabilities of a private blockchain are used to achieve speed an‎d scalability. Meanwhile, security an‎d privacy are ensured through advanced cryptographic mechanisms resistant to emerging threats. The performance eva‎luation results of this research indicate that the proposed architecture is capable of processing 50 million votes in under 4 hours. This achievement, while solving the scalability challenge, offers a practical model for the digitalization of electoral processes at national an‎d global levels by enhancing transparency an‎d efficiency.

انتخابات الكترونيكي , زنجيره‌بلوكي تركيبي , شفافيت , مقياس‌پذيري , حريم خصوصي , امنيت سايبري

electronic elections , hybrid blockchain , transparency , scalability , privacy , cybersecurity

Seyyed Hossein Naserizade Ghamsari

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