University Elections Management Portal

Abstract

Elections form a critical process of many social institutions which uphold principles of representational democracy such as fairness to all and the right to have equal right by way of casting a vote [Alistair McConnachie, 2003]. This paper describes a research carried out at Taita Taveta University College, an institution of higher learning in Kenya and the process undertaken to achieve development and deployment of a web based system to promote free and fair democratic electioneering process: computerizing registration, voting and tallying process involved. The system was developed using the incremental prototyping due to the adaptive nature of web based applications and the system proved that a computerized solution is possible with elimination of human related faults that are a commonplace in employment of human clerks to manage the election process. Application of the online voting has resulted in many advantages in the efficiency of the entire electioneering process and reduced costs the university used to incur using the human clerk electioneering process.

Keywords: Internet Voting, Internet Securities, Fool proof