A CLOUD BASED E-VOTING SYSTEM USING NIN AUTHENTICATIONMECHANISM FOR ELECTORAL PROCESS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Lack of transparency has led to a failure to deliver voters assurance, agitations of suspicions and mistrust from opposition political parties. This has also led to fear of voter’s insecurity, secrecy and possibility of verified results with the electronic systems that corrupt the electoral process in Nigeria. The gap observed is one that could aid the economy, government; individual and corporate organizations to improve on the state of life and develop better working systems which cannot be overemphasized. Therefore, there is need to design a transparent, trusted and secured cloud based electronic voting system that will be used during elections in Nigeria. The proposed system was built using Dynamic System Development Methodology (DSDM), Java programming language was employed at the frontend while MYSQL was used as backend for relational database and SQLite Maestro for INEC admin backend. The built model was tested with a sample dataset collected from Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office Port Harcourt. The proposed model was evaluated and performance ranking of testing voting results using parameters such as state, electorate, and turnout in percentages showed excellent system efficiency. The proposed model performed better than other existing models and showed that it can be used to achieve transparent and trusted result during and after the election.