I think that students are ready for e-voting rather than the residual population due to their higher affinity with technology. Please catch a glimpse of existing voting security in literature, viz. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57220-1_66

Thanks Gunter. but considering an African setting, resources and methodologies of implementation may be rather costly and with the low ICT literacy levels; it even becomes more hectic to conceive the idea of the evote.

I see. Is every village in Uganda covered with EDGE at least?

EDGE I will say 60% is covered. but rates per MB are still very high. Which indeed posses an obstacle in implementation.

If the Uganda government wants to establish e-voting, then it must install voting machines in EDGE-covered areas and take over the accrued expenditures rather than the voters.

Gunter thats really encouraging of that thought. If we narrow done the study to a university. how can that be put into reality

Create a prudent scientific disquisition focussing on low costs and submit it to the Uganda government!

Hi Nassef,

I also think that students are quite ready for e-Voting.

In Bulgaria the transition from “paper” voting to e-Voting is very difficult political process. A similar problem maybe occurs and in other countries. To make this transition more easily we created Bulgarian e-Voting Technology (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282336207____?showFulltext=1&linkId=560d1e9a08aec71cb48fea42).

Our Technology combines “paper” voting with e-Voting. This makes the transition easier. The technology concept can be called “open data concept” because we don’t encrypt the content of the e-ballot. Instead of that we introduce so called by us „Unique Anonymous Identifier“. We think that the “open data concept” is more acceptable for the society than Black-Box concept.

The ICT implementation of the technology could be very cheap.

Research Технология за електронно гласуване

The English version of the paper for e-Voting can be reach here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283441668_e-Voting_Technology .

Technical Report e-Voting Technology

Lyubomir and Martin thank you for the information. Innovations are good and I think we just need to encourage our students and masses to adopt to the change. The duo transition from paper voting to digital is really challenging but effort is needed. :-)

• While it is difficult to generalize, there have been experiences such as the election of the President of the University of Lovaine (http://assets.adida.net/research/ucl-helios.pdf) that suggest they are quite familiar with the matter. Furthermore, in the abovementioned case, the e-voting system utilized was Helios Voting, totally free of charge.

Regards

David