Enhancing Electoral Integrity: Implementation of a Secure E-Voting Platform

This paper proposes the design and implementation of a secured e-voting system intended to innovate the electoral process, thereby improving voters' Technologies: I.INTRODUCTION participation in elections. Traditional methods of voting have a number of drawbacks regarding logistics inefficiency, accessibility to voters, and security issues. The proposed e-voting system will help solve these problems by offering a digital platform that will ensure secured, efficient, and accessible voting. The system has been developed in Java, JSP, and MySQL; it has a highly user- friendly interface, a robust backend processing system, and data managed safely. The system is secured to allow access only to the authorized voter by its OTP-based authentication mechanism via SMS gateway. In fact, such a model of two- factor authentication considerably reduces unauthorized access and hence enhances the security for the voting process. All votes are encrypted before storage to maintain confidentiality and integrity of data for the voters using the system. The architecture of the system is such that it is scalable, hence, capable of responding to simultaneous requests from a high volume of users with no degradation of performance. Extensive testing gives evidence of the system's reliability and efficiency in different scenarios, hence allowing it to suit all parameters that ensure a secure, as well as transparent, electoral process. Introducing contemporary technology into the context of voting, this e-voting system has great potential to revolutionize how elections are conducted and guarantee more participation while securing the integrity of the election outcome in the digital era. INDEX TERMS : Online Voting , Secure Voting Platform, Voter Authentication, OTP Verification, SMS Gateway, Encryption, Web Application Development, Voting Results , Election Management System