Abstract:
Democracy is the power vested in people to choose and elect their representatives. However, the process of election and voting is prone to rigging leading to undeserving people leading a nation which further causes mistrust and agitation among the people. Various methods have been proposed and implemented for free and fair elections. In this survey, we list and discuss different methods proposed and adopted for voting. These include the techniques which were introduced in past and can be implied in the future, the techniques by which voting system can be made more secure are, remote voting, internet/online voting, RFID tags, fingerprint technology, and IOT for updating, two languages the extensible markup language and another one is the extensible style language are used to design a unique content and cannot be copied. Other technology like an electronic voting machine with a battery can be useful in rural areas where the internet is not available and the last one is blockchain technology by which the voter can cast their vote in no time, with end-to-end encryption. All this work is to find a better way to make the voting system more reliable and trustable for the future. In the end, we discuss the efficacy of these systems in the current infrastructure and requirements of Pakistan.
Keywords:
remote voting
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blockchain voting
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electronic voting
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onlineinternet voting
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RFID tags
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Democracy
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fingerprint technology