The Adoption and Challenges of Electronic Voting Technologies Within the South African Context

Achieng, Mourine; Ruhode, Ephias

doi:10.5121/ijmit.2013.5401

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“…A diminutive number of authors have written on the benefits of m-voting specifically, but quite an immense number have written on e-voting. E-voting systems do not only offer mobility [2], [3] and flexibility [9], [10] to the users but also:…”

Section: Benefits Of M-votingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Voting is a critical feature of any democratic process and is a vital expression of the people's power [1], [2], [3]. This citizens' democratic right must be kept confidential and follow the one-manone vote policy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This citizens' democratic right must be kept confidential and follow the one-manone vote policy. Voting methods vary from traditional voting systems to electronic voting systems [2], [3], [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…M-voting is at its infancy throughout the world, it is not in use in most parts of Africa including SA [5], [3], [4]. No empirical research till this far has been done to investigate the factors and components that influence the successful implementation of m-voting.…”

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2016

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“…Another such work was carried out by Achieng and Ruhode [6] performed a survey on the adoption and challenges that are prevailing in electronic voting techniques in context to South Africa, the survey was carried out in Cape Town where people had access to internet. The survey was carried in the form of on-line questionnaire.…”

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FPF: Fraud Proof Framework for Electronic Voting System

Kabandana¹,

Kumar²

2016

IJECE

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In a democratic process voting plays a vital role in selection of policy as well as candidates. Voting though gives the freedom to voter to cast his opinion it is not free fraudulent. In order to have secure voting and convey the opinion of authorized voter in this paper we have presented a java based framework for fraud proof electronic voting system. In this framework we ensure that only the authorized voter is permitted to cast his vote and mitigate illegal voters cast votes on faking or pretending to be someone else. Proposed FPF provides a multi-level of authentication mechanism to validate the voter. The proposed system is tested for efficiency and robustness in comparing it with the existing system and is found to be efficient through comparative analysis. At present FPF is successful in mitigating the unauthorized voting further enhancement in the electronic voting system is being carried out as future work. Keyword: Authentication Cloud computing Electronic voting Encryption Multi-level authentication Copyright © 2016 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.All rights reserved. Corresponding Author:Innocent Kabandana, Departmenr of CS&E, School of Engineering and Technology, Jain University Global Campus, India. Email: innocentkabandana123@gmail.com INTRODUCTIONElections have a long history, different part of the world followed different methods for electing representatives. In a Democratic nation elections are considered as the key factors for the growth of the nation as it provides the voter with opportunity be a part of the policy making and nation building. The process of election involves co-ordination of different mechanisms involving the registration of the voter, registration of the candidates and scrutinizing the information provided by the voter as well as candidates. Collaborating these information, maintaining confidentiality of these information and conducting a free and fair election turns to be a tedious process. In order to have a free and fair election no loopholes in any of the mechanism should be allowed, in failing to do so will fail the moto of the democracy. In order to overcome these challenges and with the advancement of technology also the need to reduce cost, improve security, efficiency and reduce human interface gave rise to the idea of Electronic voting. With the more and more countries opting for democratic way of electing representatives has also resulted in emerging of new techniques in voting. From the predated technique of publiclyacclaiming the vote to recent mechanism of ballot paper voting there has been tremendous enhancement in voting system [1]. With the growth in information technology and internet new techniques like electronic voting is introduced in many different countries. Earlier electronic voting was just referred to the use of electronic voting machine in the process of voting. With times different approaches were experimented to establish a secured electoral system and increase the involvement of the citizen in nation building.E-voting can be consi...

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A scheme of analysis for eVoting as a technological innovation system

Sambo

Alexander

2018

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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This paper seeks to determine whether the introduction of technology in the electoral processes can be regarded as a technological innovation system. This is done by analysing and evaluating eVoting systems using data obtained from interviews and reviewing documentation relating to a multicase study of the Namibian and South African context. The study reveals that the adapted scheme of analysis proposed for technological innovation systems can be successfully applied to an eVoting system to obtain insights into the functions of the system, the electoral processes involved, and the process of introducing the innovation (techno-change process). From the analysis, it can be deduced that an eVoting system may be classified as technological innovation system as the researcher was able to analyse, identify, and link the 6 steps of the scheme of analysis to the electoral processes. This analytical process is expected to provide improved insights into the techno-change processes and the electoral processes and enhance adoption of the eVoting system. The findings not only explain how to improve the usability of the electoral system and its efficiency but also help in crafting policies and strategies that can counter the barriers of implementing and adoption of the technology.

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The Adoption and Challenges of Electronic Voting Technologies Within the South African Context

Cited by 49 publications

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m-Voting: Understanding the complexities of its implementation

m-Voting: Understanding the complexities of its implementation

FPF: Fraud Proof Framework for Electronic Voting System

A scheme of analysis for eVoting as a technological innovation system

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