BD‑VoteNet: A Fully Decentralised, Tamper‑Proof Electronic Voting System for Bangladesh and Its Diaspora

INTRODUCTION

In an era where blockchains move more value every 24 hours than most nations print in a year, our ballots still too often depend on opaque boxes and blind trust. The dissonance is staggering. As digital citizens we sign billion‑dollar smart contracts from a phone, yet as voters we queue in the heat hoping a paper trail isn’t lost in a back room. This inequity is no longer acceptable. Today’s cryptographic tools can make fraud mathematically impossible, tampering instantly visible, and participation as easy as a tap—but only if we, the people, demand it.

BD‑VoteNet stands on the shoulders of the same decentralized technologies that secures trillions of dollars daily across Bitcoin, Ethereum and other public chains. It distills those breakthroughs into one uncompromising promise: every voice counted, every count provable, no excuses. In 2025, anything less is a betrayal of basic democratic rights. The blueprint you hold is not just a Bangladeshi project; it is a manifesto for every nation whose citizens believe that legitimacy must be earned in the open, verified by code and sealed by cryptographic truth.

We invite technologists, lawmakers and everyday voters alike: do not settle for whispers of fairness—demand proofs. Expect nothing short of radical transparency. Claim the democracy your century can deliver.

Disclaimer:

ChatGPT Model o3 has been used to ideate and research many parts of this project. Jisan and I began this idea on the eve of the ex Prime Minister’s ousting, Shaikh Hasina on 5th August 2024. Almost 1 year ago. We began by thinking about how we can build an Electronic Voting system for Bangladesh that is tamper-proof and decentralized. We looked at many technologies available to us, and worked through various challenges that we would face in an environment such as Bangladesh where not only the population is vast, but dispersed, many remote and many without access to mobility and internet connectivity.

We looked at decentralized internet connectivity, radio based mesh networking, and others. All those ideas still hold in case of a possibility that communications itself is no longer a trusted commodity in a country that seeks fair elections. And our idea evolved to thinking about tamper-proofness, trust of voter call, bipartisan trust, and proving that the code that runs the machines has not been tampered with.

We do believe that the technology that is available to us today, put in a framework to address these problems has the ability to run such a grandiose vision of a fair election. This white paper is only a start toward that vision. We publish it today, to start the awareness campaign and to document what is possible and what we, at Jionex hope to build with and for the people of Bangladesh.