--- A High Secured, Cost Effectively E-Voting System
Author(s): HAMED, Essam M.; SEDKY, Mohammad Hosam
Author(s) keywords: Avalanche Effect, Data Integrity, E-Voting Systems, EVS, FDES, security
Reference keywords: network security, system security
Abstract:
Electronic voting is often seen as a tool for making the electoral process more efficient and increasing trust in its management. Properly implemented e-voting solutions can increase the security of the ballot, speed up the processing of results and make the voting process easier. However, the challenges are considerable. If not carefully planned and designed, e-voting can undermine the confidence in the whole electoral process. The main important obstacle in any e-voting system across the world is the security issue. Election's results may be modified when delivered to the Higher Elections Committee, unauthorized voter may vote instead of the eligible voter, a vote may not be calculated; also there may be an election's official reveal the candidate who some voter cast his ballot for. That makes E-voting system generally not trustful and convenient. This paper proposes a voting model system overcomes these obstacles. Security parameters evaluation experiments are performed successfully to the proposed system. The experiments are proving that the proposed Voting Model satisfies privacy, accuracy, un-readability, eligibility, integrity, and cost effectiveness.
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Article Title: A High Secured, Cost Effectively E-Voting System
Author(s): HAMED, Essam M.; SEDKY, Mohammad Hosam
Date of Publication: 2016-06-29
Publication: International Journal of Information Security and Cybercrime
ISSN: 2285-9225 e-ISSN: 2286-0096
Digital Object Identifier: 10.19107/IJISC.2016.01.01
Issue: Volume 5, Issue 1, Year 2016
Section: Advances in Information Security Research
Page Range: 11-31 (21 pages)
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