Electronic Voting System for University Student Elections: The Case of Kabarak University, Kenya
Moses Mwangi Thiga, Vincent Chebon, Shem Kiptoo, Emmanuel Okumu, Daniel Oduor Onyango · IST-Africa Week Conference · 2018
Student elections in higher education institutions have over the years become very expensive and involving exercises. This study examines the challenges facing the conduct of these student elections manually and presents an electronic alternative that demonstrates great advantages especially in introducing efficiency at the vote tallying stage of the election. The electronic voting system developed and tested at Kabarak University is a result of a consultative engagement with the student fraternity and utilizes a very basic but secure approach to guarantee the sanctity of the process and accuracy in the tallying of the results. The system and development process will serve to demonstrate the applicability of electronic voting not only in the higher education context but also in other contexts that require an infusion of efficiency in the voting processes.