Addressing Verifiability Problem Of Electronic Voting System
Oladayo Sunday Olalekan
جامعة المدينة العالمية · ماليزيا
Internet voting could represent an effective way to improve accessibility to voting platform during election and increases turn out amongst the young people during the exercise. While the internet is sufficiently safe for conducting bank transactions, this is not yet the case for politically binding elections.Designing a robust system algorithm to solve electronic (internet) voting system verifiability problem isa challenging task in Computer or Information and Communication Technology world.The integrity of election process is fundamental to the integrity of democracy itself. The election system must be sufficiently robust to curb varieties of fraudulent behaviors and must be sufficiently transparent and comprehensible that voters and candidates can cast and accept the result of election without any violent eruption afterward.An effective way to gaining voters’ confidence in the credibility of election is to ensure that they can verify that their votes were counted as cast especially citizens in Diasporas and others who will cast their votes at the comfort of their remote locations by connecting to the internet. This work is based on designing a voter verifiability system which uses graphical interface to capture and display updated number of electorates’cast votes. The system will help voters to verifier that their votes are counted as cast.The display will be followed by instant short message service broadcast to all registered voters.The verifiability system will fulfilall modern voting system requirements which includes guide against security threats, transparency and secrecy. The ability of electorate to verify that his vote was counted during election and that he was not short changed makes him believe in the credibility of the election