AN ENHANCED WEB-BASED ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM

📄 Project Abstract

In recent years, information technology has greatly affected all aspects of our national life, and to a large extent, this includes politics. One basic feature of democracy that cuts across all divides of people is the act of election. Traditional manual methods of conducting elections are no longer preferred because of the long period of preparation, violence, rigging, dis-enfranchization of eligible voters, over-voting, mistakes made in counting the votes, long period of counting and high cost of voting process etc. The most recent method being advocated for is electronic voting (e-voting). E-voting is an election system that allows a voter to record his or her secure and secret ballot electronically. This work showed how e-voting through the use of mobile devices like tablets, Ipads and PCs would totally eradicate all these problems as people would no longer go to election venues to cast their votes, rather they would be at the comfort of their homes and offices to exercise their f...