Self-Reporting Electronic Voting System for Use in Nigeria

Abstract

Voting is an electoral system act in which an organization, community
or party use for selecting their executives or representatives. This
paper focuses on sysrecording, casting and/or counting of votes by use
of electronic metem that supports the ans. The self-reporting e - voting
system is modeled using the e-voting architecture. This system makes
use of fingerprint reader and keybinding cryptosystem template.
MATLAB R2015a v8.5.0.19761, SimEvent was used for the system
simulation and MySQL Server for the database. This model of selfreporting e-voting solution gave results that are more accurate
compared to traditional paper balloting, which is prone to written and
reading errors. This system has shown to have maximum accuracy and
higher security defense against election malpractice compared to
paper balloting and previous e-voting systems.