Towards One Person, One Vote via Real-Time Voter's Registration and Identification

摘要

The transparency and trustworthiness of any electoral process and their result is what characterized it to be free and fair. Although many voting systems exist, yet the voting systems does not guarantee one man one vote, nor ensures that the vote is cast by an authentic person. This results to discrepancies like chain voting, multiple voting, and impersonation emanating from multiple registrations during the electoral process. When these exist, the trustworthiness and the integrity of our elections are threatened and compromised resulting to failures or corruption of the democratic process. To stop these forms of elections fraud, voters need some form of identification in a real-time mode beginning from the registration exercise. Our objective is to propose a form of voter's registration and identification that ensures that one person votes only once. In this paper, we propose a solution of dealing with the problems during elections through the use of real-time registration and identification of voters utilizing RFID and biometric technologies.