Electronic Voting Sustem (EVS)

Abstract

In Kenya today people normally vote at various elections examples are General election and by elections to elect several elective seats like President, Governors, Senators, MPs and MCAs countrywide. In addition to that various Organizations, Political Parties Companies and institution do also conduct their parallel election to vote for various elective posts like Chairpersons, Secretaries and Treasurers among other seats. The type of voting used is mostly the manual way i. e use of paper works. This type of voting has a lot of disadvantages ranging from it being slow, costly, loss of data, election malpractices among. The problems mainly arises when the number of people become large, in the sense that time will be wasted queuing, and also enabling malpractices to be conducted with ease, and that noticing the vice will be a bit difficult. Therefore, if Electronic Voting System is adopted to replace manually voting system will have a lot advantages. This is a system that has the paramount role in ensuring that voters areregistered to vote. These are its roles: • it registers voters to the system • Details of a voter can be updated • Candidates can be registered • Details of a candidate can be updated • Voters can view results from the system • Vote electronically • Voters can vote online