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Abstract: Electronic voting or e-voting have been used in various ways over the decades, along with basic advantages over paper-based systems such as increasing efficiency and reducing error. However, the E-voting schemes bring issues mainly relating to security, credibility, transparency, reliability, and functionality which remain challenges to achieve widespread adoption of such systems especially regarding improving their resilience against potential faults. Blockchain is a distinct technology of our time that has the potential to improve the overall resilience of e-voting systems. The basic principle of the blockchain is in the immutability of the records already placed in blocks and advanced cryptography is used to ensure the chaining of blocks, and providing data integrity. This study represents an effort to leverage blockchain benefits such as cryptography and transparency to achieve an efficient voting model. Moreover, we present sec-vote, a blockchain-based voting system to bring accessibility with easy access to the web portal through the internet, reliability with face recognition and OTP, transparency with blockchain, security with hashing and cryptographic algorithms, and reduce the cost of the election.