Bio-Crystographic Technique for Secure Electronic Voting System
Olayemi Mikail Olaniyi, Oladiran Tayo Arulogun, Ayodele. Kazeem Kawonise, Taye Ajimati · 2018
Democracy involves a system of governance where citizens are at liberty to actively participate in the nation’s decision-making process by means of election. However, elections in most developing countries characteristically involve rigging in form of ballot snatching, falsification of votes and votes’ manipulation during and after electoral processes. This can mar populace confidence in the entire electioneering process of democratic governance. This paper presents bio-crystographic technique for ensuring credibility during pre-electoral and post-electoral stages of an electioneering process. This integrated technique include: Gabor filter image enhancement scheme for biometric fingerprint trait for authenticating and validating valid voters and Lifting Wavelet Transform (LWT) based video Steganographic algorithm for ballot confidentiality, SHA 512/256 Hashing techniques for ballot integrity. Performance evaluation of these schemes resulted to an average peak signal to noise ratio of 66db. Also, the authentication scheme gives a false acceptance rate of 0.0001% and a false rejection rate of 0.1%. The results showed that the developed integrated schemes can effectively handle confidentiality, integrity and authentication issues in electronic voting systems in digitally divided electoral ecosystem.