The Prospects of Computer-Enabled Voting Systems in Pakistan

Abstract

Democracy is the power vested in people to choose and elect their representatives. However, theprocess of election and voting is prone to rigging leading to undeserving people leading a nationwhich further causes mistrust and agitation amongst the people. Various methods have beenproposed and implemented towards free and fair elections. In this survey we list and discussdifferent methods proposed and adopted for voting. These include the techniques which wereintroduced in past and can be implied in future, the techniques by which voting system can bemade more secure are, the remote voting, internet/online voting, a RFID tags, a fingerprinttechnology and IOT for updating, two languages the extensible markup language and anotherone is the extensible style language are used to design a unique content and cannot be copied.Other technology like electronic voting machine with battery can be useful in rural areas whereinternet is not available and last one is the blockchain technology by which the voter can casttheir vote in no time, and can have trust on that as this technology is end-to-end encrypted, heredata can be saved in sealing blocks. All this work is to find a better way to make the votingsystem more reliable and trustable for the future. In the end we discuss the efficacy of thesesystems in current infrastructure and requirements of Pakistan.