mVote: A Mobile Voting System to Conduct Election during COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

Over years, the voting system has been a democratic way to make a collective decision to express an opinion or selecting a leader. In organizations, voting can occur to elect members of the committee or to choose the roles of candidates. At present, in this era of technological advancement, the voting process became a major issue in order to avoid vulnerabilities like missing votes, multiple voting, and miscount in an election. The manual or semi-automated systems of voting are quite a time consuming, inefficient and unfortunately lack security. Moreover, for COVID-19, physical manual vote taking has become colossal. In this paper, a secure android based mobile voting system named 'mVote' is developed for conducting vote at different institutes and organizations during and post-pandemic situation. The usability and usefulness of the 'mVote' mobile application were evaluated through the System Usability Scale (SUS) which was replicated with 75 participants. The findings of the evaluation study showed that the developed 'mVote' application is usable and will help different organizations and institutes to improve the voting experience during and post-pandemic situation.