Supervised Public Network Direct Recording Electronic Voting (PNDRE Voting) on Existing Global System for Mobile Communication Infrastructure; a Panacea for Cheap E-voting System Implementation in Nigeria
Nwogu Emeka Reginald, Onwuachu Uzochukwu C.2
Citation : Nwogu Emeka Reginald,Onwuachu Uzochukwu C., Supervised Public Network Direct Recording Electronic Voting (PNDRE Voting) on Existing Global System for Mobile Communication Infrastructure; a Panacea for Cheap E-voting System Implementation in Nigeria International Journal of Research Studies in Computer Science and Engineering 2016, 3(2) : 21-28
This work suggests a way of bringing down the cost of acquiring electronic voting in Nigeria by implementing Supervised Public Network Direct Recording Electronic Voting (PNDRE Voting) on the existing Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communication infrastructure in the Country. A review of the telecommunication industry in Nigeria was done. A system that embeds electronic voting in the existing GSM infrastructure was proposed. This system involves a three-level network setup that includes the public network (hosts electronic voting terminals), the Demilitarized Zone (hosts the forwarding server) and the Secure Local Area Network (hosts the electoral commission's private servers). A comparative analysis of the current system together with the proposed system was done with keen interest in the cost of implementation. It was established that this system ensures reduced cost of implementation with good cost saving; thereby encouraging massive acceptance and deployment especially in countries with well developed GSM infrastructure. The system is also proposed with good security architecture.