Mobile Voting Research Articles

Blockchain Technology Application for Electronic Voting Systems

Low voter turnout, limited access to polling locations, and mistrust of the voting process persist as ongoingchallenges within the voting system. Addressing these issues, this paper introduces a pioneering solution: ablockchain-based remote electronic voting system. This system aims to empower users in creating their votingprocedures, ensuring transparency throughout the voting process, and guaranteeing fault tolerance even in theevent of hardware failures. Leveraging blockchain technology, renowned for its security and immutability,the proposed system establishes a decentralized and transparent voting process. Users can securely registertheir identities, cast anonymous votes, and modify their votes while the voting session remains open. Realtime access to voting results and a robust smart contract system further enhance the system's transparency andreliability. By eliminating the necessity for physical polling locations and enabling mobile voting, this systemhas the potential to bolster civic engagement and increase participation in the electoral process. While theimplementation of blockchain-based electronic voting systems continues to evolve, this paper delineates thepotential benefits and challenges associated with such systems, providing a promising path for the future ofsecure and transparent elections.

Survey on Decentralized Democracy: Blockchain Voting System

Voting is a fundamental pillar of democracy, but traditional voting systems face numerous challenges, including concerns related to security, transparency, and accessibility. In recent years, blockchain technology has emerged as a promising solution to revolutionize the voting process. By leveraging the inherent characteristics of blockchain technology, a blockchain-based voting system can enhance the integrity and trustworthiness of the voting process. Blockchain-based voting systems offer several key features and benefits. One of the main advantages is the security and immutability of voter data, which makes it virtually impossible to tamper with or manipulate. Each vote is recorded as a transaction on the blockchain, creating a transparent and auditable ledger that can be accessed by all stakeholders. This eliminates the need for intermediaries such as government agencies or third-party voting providers, reducing the risk of interference and tampering. Another advantage of blockchain-based voting systems is increased accessibility. Remote and mobile voting can help improve voter turnout and participation, especially for individuals who may have difficulty accessing traditional polling stations. Moreover, blockchain technology can maintain the anonymity of voters while ensuring the verifiability of their choices, which guarantees the privacy of their decisions. Despite these benefits, challenges persist, including concerns about identity verification and cybersecurity. Addressing these issues is crucial for the widespread adoption of blockchain-based voting systems. In conclusion, a blockchain-based voting system has the potential to transform the way elections are conducted by providing a secure, efficient, and transparent platform that empowers citizens and strengthens the democratic process. As the technology continues to evolve, it is essential to address its limitations while harnessing its advantages to build a more robust and inclusive electoral system. Keywords: Blockchain, voting, election, decentralized, secure, transparency, immutability, privacy.

Biometric based Mobile Voting Application

With a population of more than one billion, India is the largest democracy in the world. Its electorate is more than 668 million people and includes 543 congressional districts. Each Indian citizen above 18 years of age is entitled to vote in elections to choose their leaders. The traditional method of voting involved paper ballot voting and at present Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) are employed. The goal of the mobile voting system research is to create a software that makes voting simple in all elections. This system aims to increase election security by using a fingerprint recognition algorithm for voter identity authentication. This allows all eligible voters to participate in the election from any place. There are some circumstances like COVID epidemic where a physical election is not feasible, and this model overcomes it. It helps to provide reliable, timely, and accurate election results. Voter ID, Aadhar ID and biometric system (fingerprint) are used by the website for user login.

Local elections in the European Union and Ukraine: comparative characteristics

The article provides a comparative analysis of the electoral legislation of the EU countries and Ukraine at the local level and on the basis of this analysis, the proposals to improve the electoral legislation of Ukraine take into account the experience of the European Union.
 The main forms of direct democracy in most EU member countries and Ukraine are fixed at the constitutional level, and the procedure of preparing and holding elections is regulated by special election laws. Domestic electoral legislation is overloaded with detailed norms of procedural aspects, unlike the legislation of EU countries, in which much more attention is paid to the issues of transparency of party financial funds and transparency of election campaign financing, as well as protection of national minorities’ interests.
 The main ways of exercising the right to vote not at the place of inclusion in the voter lists in the EU member states were characterized: voting by absentee ballots at specially designated polling stations, voting on the territory of diplomatic and consular missions, voting by mail, proxy voting, mobile voting, voting via the Internet, distance voting. It is noted that the norms in which the institution of a cash deposit is enshrined are discriminatory since they violate the principle of equality of suffrage and create a situation in which candidates are excluded from the political arena on the basis of the property criterion.
 Relevant for EU countries is the adoption of measures to create appropriate conditions for the full implementation of the principle of equality of citizens before the law, in particular, to overcome the actual inequality of opportunities between women and men.
 In order to bring Ukrainian legislation in line with international standards set by the European Union, we propose: to grant the right to vote in local elections to citizens of other states or stateless persons who permanently reside on the territory of the respective territorial community and permanently pay local taxes and fees have common local interests related to everyday life, infrastructure, communication, recreation; to introduce electronic voting; not to apply the institution of cash deposit at the local level; to introduce individual (party) gender quotas, following the French example.

Features of public electoral administration in situation of pandemic

The aim of the article is to consider the issues of public administration of the election process in situation of pandemic, the peculiarities of the implementation of election legislation and the problems of elections in Ukraine and abroad with the introduction of quarantine restrictions. The subject of the study is the peculiarities of holding elections in situation of pandemic. Research methodology. The set of general scientific and special methods is used to achieve the objectives of the research: systemic, dialectical, systemic and structural, legal and dogmatic, comparative, predictive methods. Research results. It has been noted that in many countries the question of postponing the dates of elections and referendums, which had been set in advance, was raised because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Practical meaning. The analysis of the experience of foreign countries in postponing the voting dates of elections and referendums has shown that such measures had been taken because of the introduction of the state of emergency as the special legal regime for public authorities and administration throughout the State or in individual administrative-territorial units, which entailed substantial restriction of citizens’ rights and freedoms in the area of electoral matters. Value / originality. The need for further research of alternative voting methods, such as direct visits to the polling station, such as remote voting, voting by mail, early voting, mobile voting, electronic voting, voting by proxy and others has been substantiated.

Secure Electronic Voting System based on Mobile-app and Blockchain

Introduction: The notion of electronic voting has evolved over a period of time replacing the traditional system which was based on paper ballots. Several types of electronic voting systems exist, still the implementation is partial and there is a scope for improvement for making it more secure and user-friendly.Method In this paper, a proof-of-concept is presented which aims to address the issues and challenges in the electoral system, by using the concept of Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts. Result: These electronic electoral processes propose a centralized solution that can be easily tampered, thus increasing the problem of distrust in the citizens. To overcome this blockchain technology can be used for implementing mobile based electronic voting system. Blockchain technology is aiding in the development of novel digital services that are more secure and reliable. Discussion: The main objective of this paper is to depict how a feasible, secure and reliable mobile voting system can be built by implementing the concept of blockchain and smart contracts. Conclusion: The issue of security and transparency in the voting system can be addressed using blockchain technology. The present study aims to fulfil these gaps partially by providing use-case for the voting process which is based on mobile and blockchain technology.

Report on the Utility of Mobile Voting Centers: A Preliminary Overview

Mobile voting centers have taken many different forms, each tailored to one of a variety of specific rationales. Some mobile voting locations are designed to reach hard-to-access areas or voters with mobility issues or movement restrictions. Others are intended to catch potential voters in a high-traffic location. Still others have prepared mobile voting centers as emergency auxiliaries. It is an open question whether counties could benefit from mobile polls, and this preliminary report seeks to answer that question. First, it surveys examples of mobile voting centers’ success in different areas, categorized by rationale. From these, it draws common successes and challenges across each category. It concludes that mobile polling is most helpful as a narrowly-tailored resource for harder-to-reach communities and as an emergency auxiliary. Additionally, it recommends that counties seeking to invest in a mobile polling vehicle maximize their benefit by selecting one which is also capable of conducting voter outreach and registration during the off-season.

Lessons Learned From Three Months of Pharmaceutical-Care Digital-Education at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

An acceptable degree of digital literacy has always been present among the pharmacy teaching staff in Basel, with PowerPoint being the main vehicle to present teaching materials in front of full or half classes. Because cell phones became inseparable from students over the past years, mobile voting (movo.ch) or e-quizzes (mentimeter.com) have been regularly used to hold the attention of all students during collective teaching. Moreover, e-assessment on iPad® with the software BeAxi (www.k2prime.com) was introduced in 2012 and is currently used for all evaluations and exams. Suddenly over the night of March 16, 2020, our university, as all universities around the world, had to transfer all courses to an online format and to empower lecturers to teach from their home. This paper offers one perspective for how this digitial experiment unfolded at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland.

Lessons Learned From Three Months of Pharmaceutical-Care Digital-Education at the University of Basel, Switzerland

An acceptable degree of digital literacy has always been present among the pharmacy teaching staff in Basel, with PowerPoint being the main vehicle to present teaching materials in front of full or half classes. Because cell phones became inseparable from students over the past years, mobile voting (movo.ch) or e-quizzes (mentimeter.com) have been regularly used to hold the attention of all students during collective teaching. Moreover, e-assessment on iPad® with the software BeAxi (www.k2prime.com) was introduced in 2012 and is currently used for all evaluations and exams. Suddenly over the night of March 16, 2020, our university, as all universities around the world, had to transfer all courses to an online format and to empower lecturers to teach from their home. This paper offers one perspective for how this digitial experiment unfolded at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland.

Promises and Perils of Mobile Voting

Voter turnout is often low and unequal, but the opportunity to vote on a mobile device could drastically lower the cost of democratic participation. In 2018, West Virginia became the first U.S. sta...

A Proposed Mobile Voting Framework Utilizing Blockchain Technology and Multi-Factor Authentication

Voting is fundamental to any consensus-based society and is one of the most critical functions of democracy. Mobile voting (m-voting) was utilized as a means for voters to easily and conveniently cast their votes using their mobile devices which have been the most adopted means of communication but has a major problem which is safely securing the casted votes and avoiding any form of tampering. In this paper, we propose an m-voting framework that utilizes blockchain technology to securely store the casted votes and multi-factor authentication to authenticate the voters before they cast their votes while also providing an easily accessible, secure and transparent m-voting system.

Mobile Phones: A Panacea for the Implementation of E-voting in Nigeria

Mobile phones have become the most ubiquitous telecommunication technology in developing countries and indeed, the world over, with its penetration rate outstripping those for internet users, fixed phone lines and broadband subscriptions. Services that are offered through mobile phones sometimes referred to as “m-services” could increase the utility of mobile phones to enhance human capabilities. One of such services is mobile voting (m-voting). However, owing to factors such as digital divides, low literacy level, deficits in communication infrastructures, poverty, poor capacity to develop and so on, providing such services except in a highly localized nature, maybe an attendant problem in Nigeria and most developing countries. In this paper, an m-Voting framework was proposed using two of the communication channels of basic phones which are Short Message Service (SMS) and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD). Basic phones are easy to use and are increasingly able to bypass the barriers of illiteracy and affordability, and they provide access to a wide range of very useful services. The paper investigated the prospects of voting through mobile phones as a substantive voting platform in Nigeria with a view to foster enhanced participation and convenience of voters during electioneering processes.

Determinants of voting avoidance On mobile social media: evidence from WeChat in China

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to use role expectation theory to identify potential determinants of user voting avoidance on mobile social media.Design/methodology/approachData were collected through a survey of 602 WeChat users, and the proposed model was analysed using structural equation modelling.FindingsResults indicate that user voting avoidance was positively influenced by unfair competition, perceived inauthenticity, perceived information insecurity, over-consumption of renqing (a unique Chinese human relation) and organisation placement in the context of mobile social media.Originality/valueThis study illustrates mobile user voting avoidance from the perspective of role expectation theory and clarifies the importance of avoidance in current voting research.

Integration of Mobile Voting Services into Mining Engineers Training for Mineral and Resource Sector

Currently, sustainable development is associated with the intellectualization of the mineral resource complex, with careful use of natural resources, with a decrease in the anthropogenic load on the environment. This makes new demands on the training of mining engineers related to the digitization of the mineral and resource sector. Being one of the leading coal mining regions in the world, Kuzbass (Russia) demands from its regional higher educational institutions to follow new educational standards, making ICT, web-sources and e-learning the significant and inherent part of educational process. This paper reveals the author’s experience of integration the mobile voting service (Socrative) into teaching mining engineering students. We conducted the experiment to test this service among mining engineering students. Our methods included interviewing, testing, observations. The received data proved that this mobile service could improve educational process in various ways. The value of mining engineers, provided for new knowledge, is increasing in the process of innovative development of the mineral and resource sector, in which traditional resource-intensive technologies give way to lean production.

Design and Implementation of a Mobile Voting System Using a Novel Oblivious and Proxy Signature

Electronic voting systems can make the voting process much more convenient. However, in such systems, if a server signs blank votes before users vote, it may cause undue multivoting. Furthermore, if users vote before the signing of the server, voting information will be leaked to the server and may be compromised. Blind signatures could be used to prevent leaking voting information from the server; however, malicious users could produce noncandidate signatures for illegal usage at that time or in the future. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes a novel oblivious signature scheme with a proxy signature function to satisfy security requirements such as information protection, personal privacy, and message verification and to ensure that no one can cheat other users (including the server). We propose an electronic voting system based on the proposed oblivious and proxy signature scheme and implement this scheme in a smartphone application to allow users to vote securely and conveniently. Security analyses and performance comparisons are provided to show the capability and efficiency of the proposed scheme.

Touchscreen Voting Interface Design for Persons with Disabilities

Using specifications gathered from previous research focused on mobile and/or accessible design, our research team designed and created a mobile voting user interface prototype for individuals with and without disabilities. Thirty-two participants, including individuals who have dexterity limitations, dyslexia, low vision, and those with no disabilities, evaluated the usability of our mobile voting prototype. Our study generally confirmed previous research, and we discovered further considerations for a universal mobile voting interface design. The majority of participants had a positive reaction and experience while voting using our prototype, and indicated they would use it in an election if it were available. Based on our results, recommendations are provided to inform user interface designers, election officials, voting system manufacturers, and the general public on the specific needs of different user groups and design considerations for a universal mobile voting interface.

The Factors Affecting User Behavior on Mobile Voting in Vietnam

The Factors Affecting User Behavior on Mobile Voting in Vietnam

An Empirical Study on the Improvement of Apartment House Governance Based on Mobile Voting : Focusing on the Agency Cost Problem

An Empirical Study on the Improvement of Apartment House Governance Based on Mobile Voting : Focusing on the Agency Cost Problem

An Empirical Study on the Improvement of Apartment House Governance based on Mobile Voting: Focusing on the Agency Cost Problem

An Empirical Study on the Improvement of Apartment House Governance based on Mobile Voting: Focusing on the Agency Cost Problem

The Case for Election Technology

Information technology permeates almost every aspect of our lives. Finally, after years of resistance, election technology is slowly helping the world's democracies increase transparency, facilitate turnout and reduce the cost of running elections whilst increasing integrity and security. The current article analyses some of the longstanding arguments against the use of technology in the election process, and the responses made by experts, including the demonstrated benefits of well-designed election technology. An entire section on security is provided, as are references to some implementations around the world and to the Election Automation Maturity Model. The article also touches briefly on the tools of Internet and mobile voting.