M-Vote: A Reliable and Highly Secure Mobile Voting System

The critical issue in elections is choosing a leader who will represent his nation and preserve its citizens´ rights with the threat of a criminal element attempting to influence the outcome of the election. Unfortunately, such disruptions have occurred at many paper-based voting stations, and also in some electronic voting systems. Manual, or paper-based voting is the most widely used voting system, but its integrity can be questioned, since the votes are gathered and counted by hand, which decreases the likelihood of every vote being counted, either accidentally or intentionally. Electronic voting systems have emerged to solve most of the problems that occur in manual voting. However, the criminal element, with their knowledge of how to exploit technical loopholes, attempts to take advantage of these problems, thwarting any efforts to hold fair elections. To avoid the mistakes made by both manual and electronic voting systems, we have developed the M-Vote system to try to achieve the desired goal, which is to preserve the integrity of elections. M-Vote is a mobile phone application that uses three level of security, which are username and password, national ID and fingerprint, and a strong dedicated security algorithm. These techniques prevent votes from being deleted or changed, enhance integrity and put an end to criminal acts. The results showed that M-Vote is a highly secured mobile application that facilitates the vote process for most of people, since they only need a mobile phone and an Internet connection to participate in the election process.