DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY IN ELECTION RECAPITULATION RESULTS RECORDING BASED ON SCANNING OF C1 FORM BY KPU

• Main Author: Fitra Hidayat Satria W, Dwi
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/36280
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Cheating or manipulation in the electoral process is an illegal intervention. This action will affect the results of the vote count, which is related to the addition of votes for certain election participants / candidates as well as the reduction in vote acquisition for opponents. The process of electoral manipulation can occur at each stage of the electoral implementation process, one of which is at the recapitulation stage of the vote. In 2014, the KPU RI presented a scan of C1 form on the web for transparency and transparency of election results. This C1 form contains the results of vote counting from each polling station throughout Indonesia. Through this scan the community can easily monitor the results of vote counting at each polling station. An application called Kawal Pemilu was made with the aim of being a real count media vote recapitulation of the presidential election based on scans of form C1 at that time. However, because the database used is centralized, this application makes it vulnerable to hacker attacks. Blockchain is a distributed database technology. The blockchain transaction database also cannot be damaged so it is safer. Blockchain was initially introduced by Satosi Nakamoto in 2008 in the field of cryptocurrency. However, now the blockchain has grown rapidly and has been implemented in various fields including digital identity recording, health systems, supply chains, including the digital voting process. In this study, a system of recording the results of election recapitulation was based on the scanning of C1 KPU forms with blockchain technology as a medium of supervision by the public on election recapitulation. From the results of testing, blockchain technology can support the system of recording the results of elections in real count with a distributed database without the need to worry about hackers attacks, as well as information media to detect manipulation of the results of election calculations by the KPU.