Computerized voting system for university elections: a case study of school of statistics Makerere University

Abstract

Voting is a fundamental decision-making instrument in any consensus-based society. It is a method that is employed from students’ elections to national presidential elections however due to the need for better efficiency, scalability, speed, lower cost; voting is transiting from paper based to the use of electronic means. In recent years, information technology has affected most aspects of life and politics is not exceptional. In order to choose people to various positions, different methods have been set up, the most recent being the electronic voting. The researcher thus has developed an electronic voting system to automate the voting process that is vote casting and vote counting at school of statistics Makerere University which has been purely manual and paper based. The model of an electronic voting system adopted by the researcher is a remote online voting system