Design of a Simple Remote Online Voting System with Token Generation

Abstract

Online voting is as an election system that utilizes the internet to ensure access to a domain or website and allows the eligible voters to cast their secure and secret ballot electronically. It is done by casting a ballot through a digital system over the internet. An attempt has been made to develop an electronic voting system with token generation for authenticating the voters during elections. The voting system has the client side and the administrative side. The client side is for the voters and the administrative side is handled by election officers. The registration and verification of voters are done by the election officers by entering the required data. After these entries, the system accepts the inputs and automatically generates the token. During the election the voter’s login with their generated token as the voters’ ID and a password assigned to each voter. After filling the portal, the voter gets access to vote for their preferred candidate. The system does not allow multiple votes with the same generated token. As voting proceeds, the system counts the number of votes for a candidate and at the same time the total number of voters. PHP (Hypertext preprocessor) was used for implementing the online model of the application, CSS (Cascadian stylesheet) was used to beautify the pages and MySQL was used as the database engine.

Keywords: Remote Online, Voting System, Token Generation