Design of Secure Electronic Voting System Using Multifactor Authentication and Cryptographic Hash Functions

Abstract

The primary goal of every voting system is to ensure that electorate vote counts therefore, electronic democratic governance that provides a transparent and trusted election is needed. The traditional method of voting involves the use of physical paper ballot to casts vote. This is susceptible to time wasting procedures, ballot snatching, lacks voter privacy and question the integrity of fair electoral process. This paper describes our attempt to improve the authentication and integrity of evoting system using multifactor authentication and cryptographic hash function methods. Our system meets two of the key security issues in secured e-voting system: The threat of erring voter’s authentication and integrity of vote transmitted over insecure wireless medium. The results obtained from the test and evaluation of secured electronic voting system based on this model so far shows an avenue to ensure the integrity of the electoral process and as such, encourages the populace to have trust in the election, through the detection of altered votes in wireless medium and voter authentication through One time Short Message Service (OTSMS) and Grid Card multifacto