Build your voting

application using
Blockchain

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 What is a Blockchain?

• Blockchain is a distributed ledger

technology, that replicates a digital ledger
across all network participants who
collaborate to maintain the ledger.

• The ledger contains all the transactions

submitted to the Blockchain

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 What is a Ledger?
Ledgers are THE system of record for a business.

Businesses/Individuals will have multiple ledgers

for the multiple networks in which they participate.

Examples:
• Sales Ledger
• Purchase Ledger
• Expenses Ledger

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The Problem…

Participant Bank
A’s records Participant records
B’s records

Insurer Regulator Auditor

records records records

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The Solution…
Participant Participant Bank
A’s records B’s records records

Blockchain

Insurer Regulator Auditor

records records records

… with consensus, provenance, and immutability

High-level
Overview
Components of Blockchain
Shared Ledger
• Records all transactions across the network
• Shared between participants
• Participants have their own copy through replication
• Permissioned, so participants see only appropriate transactions

Smart Contract
• Business rules implied by the contract embedded in the Blockchain
• Executed with the transaction
• Verifiable, signed and encoded

Assets
• Digital representations of commodities that are recorded on the ledger.

Participants
• All the stakeholders in the blockchain network
 Set up Hyperledger Composer

Define Components

Demo
Add Participants

Add Assets

Cast your votes

 High-level Overview

Voting
Application

Front-End Hyperledger
Composer

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Advantages of Blockchain for voting

• Integrity: Every person is allowed on 1 vote

• Fairness: A person cannot cast a vote under someone else’s
name
• Votes cannot be changed once casted
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