A MOBILE VOTING APPLICATION USING BVN AUTHENTICATION

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.