Remote Voting

The present voting system has many issues. The most prominent among them is the problem that the voter is not present in his/her country or local area at the time of elections, therefore, he/she is unable to cast his/her vote. Our approach aims at solving this problem. We have endeavoured to introduce an E-Voting System, which uses Android technology. The system includes an android application that will permit the voter to cast his/her vote from any remote location using mobile phone/ cell phone or any device supporting Android OS(2.2 and higher versions). This application uses two-factor authentication mechanism in order to ensure authenticity of voter’s identity. The two-factor authentication mechanism comprises of Face Recognition using Template Matching technique and OTP. Overall an effort has been made to deliver an E-voting System that provides better performance, security, accuracy and reliability to the entire Election process.

The study's goal is to investigate the feasibility of developing an electronic voting system for the Gumaca National High School-Accountancy, Business, and Management (GNHS-ABM) Society via Information and Communication Technology (ICT) operations that can automate the election process and serve as an alternative venue for continuing to work in a new, normal way. The population consists of 422 ABM students, and the sample was selected using the most convenient sampling technique, which yielded 129 respondents. It utilizes quantitative approach and a descriptive research method. An online form containing a 15-item self-made questionnaire was used to collect the data. For necessary statistical treatments such as descriptive and inferential statistics, normality tests, and reliability tests, Microsoft Excel and SPSS were used. According to the findings of the study, active participation is achieved by younger strata and is dominated by lower grade and female groups. In this study, the gadget exposure reveals a key aspect with a gap to consider while the overall perception agreed to the benefit of electronic voting method. Hypothesis testing revealed that all grouping variables has a p-value greater than 0.05 showing no significant difference exist and it fails to reject null hypothesis. Following the proposed intervention, the researcher suggests that the voting process be recreated. Make digital technology more accessible to students and give ample infrastructure support for students to use in order to close the gap between gadget exposure and digital transformation maximized.

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC), as mandated by the 1987 Philippine Constitution, is the primary government agency responsible for enforcing and administering all guidelines and restrictions, rules and regulations, and policies relating to the management and conduct of regular and special elections. It is a government entity tasked with ensuring democratic, transparent, and fair elections while remaining relatively independent of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government (Philippines, 2002).

The author believes that elections are the lifeblood of a political system, and they are the birth and death of political life. Political life begins when the people elect a candidate to represent or lead them. A candidate's political career ends when the public loses faith in their promises and political platform, regardless of whether they intend to run for re-election to any local or national office, which results in political death.

Every Filipino citizen who is eligible to vote has the right to elect the candidate they believe is best qualified to lead the country; this right is guaranteed by the Constitution. However, the country was hit by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which disrupted not only human activity and mobility, but also political processes such as elections. This pandemic has ushered in a "new normal" in which all transactions, whether private or public, have been transformed by the adoption of technology. To adapt to this new normal, an organization's present processes and procedures must be revised to reflect the new reality. All government initiatives, including the election process, should undergo rapid digital transformation to ensure voter safety and health while participating in democratic activities.

Concerns about health and safety protocols remain the most significant criteria in deciding whether elections should be held during the pandemic. As a result, any election, whether local or national, held during a pandemic must take protective and preventive measures to prevent disease transmission through the electoral process, which is typically the result of hundreds or thousands of people interacting and gathering in small and enclosed areas.

The study aims to emphasize that people can use COVID-19 to empower themselves and exercise their right to vote without fear of contracting the virus. They can still vote remotely without leaving their homes. As a result, voters do not need to travel to the polling place to vote. The author also emphasizes the importance of innovating the electoral process by developing a hybrid technology-based voting procedure for the new normal. She conducted a literature review, examined how to use technology to reinvent the election process, and assessed the findings of various election-related studies for policy and implementation recommendations.

Voting is a fundamental decision making instrument in any consensus-based society and democracy depends on the proper administration of popular elections. In any election, there exists a set of requirements among which voters should receive assurance that their intent was correctly captured and that all eligible votes were correctly tallied. On the other hand, the election system as a whole should ensure that voter coercion is unlikely. These conflicting requirements present a significant challenge: how can voters receive enough assurance to trust the election result, but not so much that they can prove to a potential coercer how they voted. The challenge of changing the traditional paper based voting methods used in many developing countries into electronic voting raises a set of functional and constitutional requirements. These requirements are governed by the country in which they operate and are usually not limited to privacy, authentication, fairness, transparency, integrity an...