An Architectural Framework for E-Voting Administration

Abstract

One of the key areas of concentration in achieving harmonious democracy is transparency in the electoral processes. Some countries on the African continent such as Ghana and Kenya have recently had issues of doubt and mistrust of the administration and the management of their Electoral Commission and hence a suspicion of election fraud which has prone threats of violence, economic declination and on the peak, legal implications. There was a claim of double registration, duplicated ballots, lost ballots, wrong count of ballots, failure of biometric registration system, impersonation, and alteration of counted votes in the immediate past election in countries such as Ghana, which led to series of court cases. E- Voting brings about a suitable solution to these. Available Literature at present exclusively reveals that most e-voting systems have presented several failures in design. This raises eyebrows concerning the technical and procedural controls on whether they are sufficient to guarantee trustworthy voting. The best methods possible should be applied in order to come up with the best solutions based on a framework that thoroughly addresses the requirements and standards. Therefore, this paper seeks to optimize the voting processes and governance of the Electoral Commission of respective countries by proposing a trustable e-voting theoretical framework which dwells on biometric data of various candidates as the basis for encryption of ballot, dedicated channel for transmission of counted ballots and/or connecting and disconnecting the database server before and after voting. Various literatures are considered to help propose a robust framework