Abstract:
Electronic voting has a lack of transparency that makes its use controversial. In our opinion, the lack of transparency of electronic voting systems can be overcome to a great extent by using adequate security measures (technological, physical and procedural). Such security measures would provide clarity to the process and avoid the need to rely on complex and/or networked systems and/or proprietary closed systems. This research proposed a reliable cost effective secure electronic voting system that can be used in cost effectively way in many development countries. The 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 the voter has to ensure that nobody has the possibility to know his ballot data. The proposed Voting Model System overcomes these obstacles. Security evaluation experiments are performed successfully to the proposed system proving that it satisfies privacy, accuracy, reusability, eligibility and integrity. This research proposes a secure electronic voting system that provides enhanced security by implementing cryptography and steganography in JAVA. As a preliminary investigation
