Abstract:
In Nigeria, the conventional voting system has proven inefficient as a means of carrying
out democratic electoral practices. This study aims to create a secure and convenient voting
system with the following specific objectives which are to Identify and plan requirements
for the users of the mobile voting application, and its protocols, system design
specification, authentication and database of the voting application, implement, secure, and
test the application. The methodology used in this study includes; research to be carried
out to identify the voter and administrator requirements and operations, analysis and
identification of functional and non-functional requirements of the system, system design
specification using UML diagramming tools. This study results demonstrated a mobile
voting application using react native framework that authenticates users by using a bank
verification number as a key unique voter identifier and confirms users using an OTP onetime password delivered by email confirmation. After installation and registration, this
application can efficiently store user credentials, voter ballot results, poll records as well
as others, all of which are maintained in the database. Recommendations include training
of voting officials on database management and automation, training voters on operating
smartphones and modern electoral practices. This project can be used to further automate
voting processes in organizations and higher institution. This study’s limitations include
limited time, resources and finances to completely execute the project and further
improvement include cloud computing, central database management system and further
automation of operations for institutional integration.
