A Computerised Voting System for the Mauritian Context

Abstract

Currently, the voting process in Mauritius is a manual one and it incurs a lot of expenses. For a small country like Mauritius, at least two days are spent in the process: one day for voting and another for counting and many officials are involved on both days. In order to avoid these problems, in this paper, it is proposed to use a computerised voting system. The new system is based on existing infrastructure and minimal additional costs. The new system will be based on a client server system with many client computers connected to a central server. The interface of the proposed system will be designed in such a way so as to meet user-requirements while retaining some of the aspects of the manual system. Also the new system is expected to fasten the voting process and retain maximum security where the submission of ballots is concerned.

Keywords: Internet, network-security, data encryption, user-interface, central database, client, and server