A Proposed Multiple Scan Biometric-Based System for Electronic Voting

Electioneering processes, particularly in the developing world has been marred by electoral frauds such as ballot snatching, multiple voting and other vices. The situation is compounded by the use of paper-based voter registration and voting systems. Although, there are already tendencies towards the adoption of electronic voting in some developing countries, they are still at rudimentary stages. For instance, in the last election conducted in Nigeria citizens used fingerprint biometrics for voter registration while the actual voting was still conventional in nature. Citizens that are physically challenged with no fingers and some other parts of the body were denied their civic rights as they could not register nor cast their votes. Our efforts in this work is directed towards reviewing existing challenges with the conventional electoral system with the aim of addressing fraudulent electoral prices by the use of biometric-based Electronic voting system. A Multi-scan biometric system is proposed to assist citizens that are physically challenged to cast their votes, keeping in mind that a biometric feature uniquely identifies a person based on his/her unique physiological attributes. The adoption for general elections is expected to create an avenue for full participation by all eligible voters, reduce multiple voting and restore confidence to the electioneering process.