Building Smart Multipurpose Electronic Voting System

Abstract

There is an urgent need for the existence of a secured automated voting system. Early regular voting systems have many drawbacks like the overcrowding of people in the polling stations, and hence the traffic problems. The need for great amount of documents that are exposed to forgery, also, the difficulty of achieving votes counting, and analysis are considered as drawbacks for regular voting systems. This work represents a new smart system for voting process to be secured and transparent, called "Secured Transparent Computerized Voting System (STCVS)". (STCVS) could eliminate counterfeiting, hacking. Also, while accessing it from any location, this would save the time spent for voting processes, and countries economic performance could be better. Finally, (STCVS) assures that user's vote will be his own opinion, not influenced by any others. (STCVS) is characterized by using computerized devices for voting procedures, votes counting, and analysis. Its advantages compared to paper based ballots are the faster, flexible, cost effective, and suitable accessibility procedures. Also, traditional polling stations using electronic equipment have an extra cost for the voting equipment, and the voting process is supervised through government representatives. This is not required in case of using (STCVS). This is achieved as all voters use their own computerized communication devices (smart phone, PC, laptop, tablet, …, etc), and can even be abroad at the moment of voting. This work introduces an approach for implementing computerized voting concept in a secured, verifiable manner via the Internet for (Presidential / Parliamentary / Local) elections.