Design of Secure Electronic Voting System Using Fingerprint Biometrics and CryptoWatermarking Approach

Olaniyi, Olayemi Mikail; Folorunso, Taliha Abiodun; Ahmed, Aliyu; Joseph, Olugbenga

doi:10.5815/ijieeb.2016.05.02

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“…Reference [20] developed an electronic voting system using fingerprint biometrics and crypto-watermarking approach. Researchers were motivated by the problems of unlawful voting and election results alteration.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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A Review of Electronic Voting Systems: Strategy for a Novel

Olumide¹,

Olutayo²,

Adekunle³

2020

IJIEEB

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The voting system in the world has been characterised with many fundamental challenges, thereby resulting to a corrupt contestant winning an election. Researchers have been emotionally, physically, socially and intellectually concerned about the election malpractices recorded at various levels of electing a representative. Questions on how corrupt stakeholders in elections could be prevented from fraudulent activities such as rigging and impersonation called for discussion and answers. Consequences of declaring a corrupt contestant as a winner are bad governance, insecurities and diversification of public funds for personal gains. There must be approaches to tackle the problems of voting systems. This paper focused on a comprehensive review of electronic voting systems by different scholars as a platform for identifying shortcomings or drawbacks towards the implementation of a highly secured electronic voting system. The methods used by different scholars were technically reviewed so as to identify areas that need improvement towards providing solutions to the identified problems. Furthermore, countries with history on the adoption of e-voting systems were reviewed. Based on the problems identified from various works, a novel for future work on developing a secured electronic voting system using fingerprint and visual semagram techniques was proposed.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Electronic Voting Systems: Strategy for a Novel

Olumide¹,

Olutayo²,

Adekunle³

2020

IJIEEB

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“…Security remains a major issue of concern for every e-voting system. Therefore, a secured evoting system that uses fingerprint and crypto-watermarking was proposed [34]. Voters' authentication was carried using their fingerprints.…”

Section: Existing Solutions To Challenges Faced By Nigerian Evotinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Use of Biometric Smart Cards for Voters’ Accreditation: A Case Study of Nigeria Electoral Process

Oluwatobi

Ayeni

Arulogun

et al. 2020

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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Voting remains an integral component of every democratic electoral process. it is an avenue for citizens to exercise their rights in order to elect those who will lead them in various vacant political offices. However, enhancing voters' trust and confidence in electoral processes are significant factors that could encourage the active participation of citizens in elections. Eligible voters tend to decline to participate in an election when they have a feeling that their votes may not eventually count. Furthermore, electoral processes that lead to the emergence of candidates must be adjudged to be free, fair and credible to a high degree for the result to be widely acceptable. Unacceptable election results could lead to protests and total cancelation of the election thereby resulting in loss of time and resources invested in it. To ensure that only registered voters cast their votes on election days, measures must be put in place to accredit voters on election days effectively. Therefore, this article explores the use of biometric smart cards for voters' verification and identification. With the Nigerian electoral process in view, the existing Nigerian voting procedure was reviewed, lapses were identified and solutions based on the use of the biometric smart card were proffered. If adopted, the proposed adoption of biometric smart cards for voters' accreditation will enhance the country's electoral process thereby ensuring that only registered voters cast their votes. The approach presented could also reduce the number of electoral processes and personnel required during election days, thus reducing voting time and cost.

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“…Reference [10] used cryptographic wavelet watermarking technique to accomplish the confidentiality requirements of the electronic voting system. However, the technique exposed the sensitive message to attacks as fraudsters could easily guess the existence of the sensitive message.…”

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Visual Semagram: An Enhanced Technique for Confidentiality Requirement of Electronic Voting System

S.¹,

K.²,

Adekunle³

2020

IJCNIS

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One of the rights of citizens in any democratic society is to freely elect a particular candidate into a specific office for governance. This implies that among the candidates participating in an election, one of them would emerge as a winner based on the specified rules and regulation. The recent reports on the election in different parts of the world revealed that the corrupt politicians and corrupt election officers did manipulate the sensitive results thereby leading to undesired candidate emerge as a winner. This implies that election results had not been adequately secured against an attack such as alteration for false results. This paper reviewed scholarly published work and presented a novel technique using visual semagram to satisfy the confidentiality requirement of the electronic voting system. The mathematical equations on how the three primary additive colours (Red, Green and Blue) could be used to modify and conceal the election results against suspicion and alteration were presented. The significance of this paper included the presentation of a technique that would conceal any sensitive message from attackers' suspicion and scholarly piece of information for further investigation in handling insecurity issues. The future work would involve the implementation and evaluation of the proposed technique to achieve the confidentiality requirement of the e-voting system, and to establish the validity and reliability of proposed technique.

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Design of Secure Electronic Voting System Using Fingerprint Biometrics and CryptoWatermarking Approach

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

A Review of Electronic Voting Systems: Strategy for a Novel

A Review of Electronic Voting Systems: Strategy for a Novel

Exploring the Use of Biometric Smart Cards for Voters’ Accreditation: A Case Study of Nigeria Electoral Process

Visual Semagram: An Enhanced Technique for Confidentiality Requirement of Electronic Voting System

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