A Secure Electronic Voting System Prototype

Abstract

The growth of computers and information technology over the last few years has been explosive. Computers have become necessities in virtually every area of modern life; they have brought vast benefits to fields as diverse as space exploration, artificial intelligence and a host of applications from trivial to the most life enhancing. The trend has caught on in the voting industry and E-voting systems have been developed to complement the traditional methods of voting. However, most people have refused to embrace the e-voting systems blindly and are questioning the security of the systems. This project identifies the challenges of implementing e-voting systems, proposes and designs a secure e-voting system prototype using Kenya's general elections as the test bed and describes how the proposed system should be implemented.