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Chapter 2

Review of Related Literature

Foreign Study

All computer scientist who have done work in or are interested in electronic voting seem to agree that online voting does not meet the requirements for public elections and that the current widely-deployed voting systems need improvement.

Voting on the internet has disadvantage based on the areas of secrecy and protection against coercion and/or vote selling. It’s such a truly had idea that there seems to be no credible academic effort to deploy it at all. He Kenyan General elections of 2007 brought national attention to problems with current methods of casting and counting votes in public elections. Most people believe that the current system should be changed; there is much disagreement on how such changes should be made.

Kenyans in the Diaspora have begun signing a petition in a fresh attempt to force the electoral body to allow them vote online in the General Election. They advocate using the OVS since it reduces cases of uncounted, unmarked, and spoiled ballots and the cost of travelling to cited polling stations. They are opposed to the used of High Commissions and embassies as polling stations and embassy officials as returning officers. The IEBC has in the past recommended that Kenyans abroad vote at the embassies and consulates closest to them. In the US, for example, Kenyans are expected to vote in Los Angeles and New York. Their report even proposes a framework for a new voting system with a decentralized, modular design.

Other researchers have done work in electronic voting; while they may not explicitly mentions voting from remote poll sites, their work is nonetheless relevant to any effort at designing or implementing a remote poll site voting system. Lorrie Cranor acknowledges the problems inherent in each kind of voting apparatus, but doesn’t make an overt recommendation on her site for one technology over the rest. Some other academicians like Peter Neumann focus on the immensity...