Design of Secure Elections Using Mobile Communication and Fingerprint

Elections are the decision-making process, by the people to nominate one or more persons for the position or membership in a community or for the implementation of the mandate of the election (political associations, economic, trade unions, social, ...). A major problems of election process is the authenticity, delay and accuracy. Mobile handheld device is a popular device that provides secure, private, authentic, and accurate communication and exchange of confidential information. In this book, we propose a technique to solve the above problems of election using mobile communication and fingerprint. This technique is mainly based on the usage of the Fingerprint to identify the voter. This technique is simple, requires less calculation than other public/private key techniques, assures more authenticity than digital signature, and eliminates the need for a third party. Moreover, when applied to mobile phones, this technique resists any forge imposed by another party.