Design and Development of an E-Voting Application Using Blockchain on the Solana Platform

Abstract

Elections are activities to determine the leader of an organization through deliberation within the organization's group. An efficient election process by implementing Internet and web technology called e-voting is a solution for efficiency and speed in elections, but vulnerabilities such as data changes and security are a problem for the current e-voting system. Several studies on the application of blockchain to e-voting applications have been carried out using Ethereum, but the drawbacks are that the length of transaction time makes Ethereum less responsive and difficult for larger transactions. Therefore, in order to increase efficiency and transparency from the traditional election process and also to increase the transaction time of the application of blockchain to the application to be designed, researchers will try to develop an application on a platform that uses a different platform from Ethereum, namely the Solana platform. The results of this study indicate that the application can be used well with black box testing results of 100%. The use of the Solana smart contract in this e-voting application has a gas cost to initialize the application at 0.0009 SOL, which is quite high and a gas cost to update data of 0.00001 SOL. The average transaction time is 1929 ms for account initialization and 1704 ms for account data updates which is relatively fast when compared to Ethereum which can take up to 20 seconds.