A Lightweight Ethereum Voting Prototype for Hospital Ethics Committees with Receipt-Based Inclusion Verification
Researchers prototype Ethereum voting for hospital ethics committees with public receipts but no secret ballots.
A cs.CR paper presents a Solidity, Hardhat, React, MetaMask, and ethers.js prototype for hospital ethics committee voting. Role controls, case-state checks, duplicate-vote controls, and a receipt hash support public audit and transaction inclusion verification. Because vote events expose wallet addresses and vote values, the design is pseudonymous rather than anonymous, secret, receipt-free, or coercion-resistant. Evaluation reports 22 passing functional tests and 284,137 gas per vote on local Hardhat; a 12-participant simulation used assumed probabilities and is not human-subject evidence.
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