Towards an Improved Stegano-Cryptographic Model for Secured Electronic Voting

Abstract

The widespread adoption of Information and Communication Technologies in governance over the years by electronic government has influenced democratic decision-making through electronic voting (e-voting). E-voting provides increased participation of populace, reduced cost, decreased cases of invalid votes and support basis of democracy. However, e-voting systems are generally prone to security risks ranging from an unauthorized casting of votes; Impersonation of voters by an attacker; Electronic ballot stuffing; Attack due to Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) to the voting channel; Modification of vote and Deletion of valid votes. We present an architecture for the development of an improved Stegano-Cryptographic model for electronic voting. The successful implementation and evaluation of the model will permit the government agency to know their degree of preparedness to organize free, fair and credible elections in future electronic democratic dispensation