ABSTRACT:
Election is a formal decision-making process by which a populace chooses an individual to hold public offices. The paper-based voting system is common and insecure from many politicians to manipulate the results of elections; leading to bad governance. Existing biometric voting systems used technical type of steganography to secure election results. However, technical steganography requires more lines of instructions and higher memory capacity to hide information from unauthorized populace. This research focused on a secured voting system using face biometric and text semagram techniques. This research attempts to improve on authentication and confidentiality of electronic voting system. Face feature extraction was to achieve authentication and text semagram technique was used to achieve confidentiality. Developed e-voting system was tested by some selected students of FCT College of Education, Zuba-Abuja, Nigeria. The results of administered questionnaire were evaluated using mean. Developed e-voting system was able to authenticate the voter’s identity, prevent multiple registration and multiple voting; as voters were required to use the captured face image for verification. Developed e-voting system was remarked by the respondents to be secured approach of conducting election. Based on these findings, some recommendations were made which include: the voter’s face image was required to allow the voter to cast vote.
Keywords:
Secured, Voting system, Face Biometric, Text semagram
