Biometric E-Voting System for Cybersecurity

Abstract

The manual voting system currently witnessed across Africa elections can now be carried out electronically. History has shown that an E-based voting system provides efficiency, accuracy, compliance, ease, and security. The developed Biometric E-Voting system (BIO-EVS) has the ability to prevent opportunities for fraud and protects voters’ privacy. The voting protocol designed for this system coalesced all the benefits of the existing protocols and techniques while at the same time, removing most of the known deficiencies and harms of the present system. The artificial intelligence (AI) pattern recognition and the cyber security algorithms for encryption and decryption of data where adapted in this research. Specifically, there are two-way approach at design stage of the new system namely the preliminary and detailed design stages. During the preliminary design stage, some important features of the system and the inherent cost of implementation were estimated adequately. This will guide Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in appropriating the allocation of resources. There is also provision for capital and content insurance cover against the fear of manipulation by electoral officials. Overall, the impact of BIO-EVS was discovered to be substantial, as the Independent National Electoral Commission, State electoral bodies in charge of local government elections, and Educational Institutions can adopt and promote this system of voting.