Secure public key infrastructure based system for online voting. Case study: Presidential voting in Rwanda

Abstract

This project describes the secure PKI based system for online Voting which refers to all those means which allow Voters to vote from locations other than the polling station assigned to their residence, either from abroad or from within the country. Online voting aims at increasing participation, lowering the costs of running elections and improving the accuracy and integrity of the results. Voter will use android phones, Tablet or using computer. System will use secure public key infrastructure (PKI) to secure every vote, the administrator will have privilege to register voters, candidates, party and Obsevers The online voting system is designed using web architecture model, where there is a client, webserver and a database to store the records of the voters, candidates and the election result, which is realized in server and also runs on window based operating system. The final solution of this system implementation is to help in solving fraud problems, speed-up the voting process and the process of counting votes.