Golbal history of e voting and future in pakistan

1. Faisal Imran
Department of Computer Science,
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

2. Electronic voting is often seen as a tool for
making the electoral process more efficient .
e-voting solutions can increase the security of
the ballot, speed up the processing of results
and make voting easier

3. Direct Recording Electronics (DRE)
E-voting which is physically supervised by representatives
of governmental or independent electoral authorities
(e.g. electronic voting machines located at polling
stations)
Remote e-Voting
voting is performed within the voter's sole influence, and
is not physically supervised by representatives of
governmental authorities (e.g. voting from one's personal
computer, mobile phone, television via the internet (also
called i-voting or Remote E-Voting)

4. Controlled Environments
Seen as the electronic equivalent of traditional
paper-based voting in polling stations
Uncontrolled Environments
happens without any supervision and from voting
devices that cannot be controlled by the election
administration

6. • Brazil
• India
• Belgium
• Australia
• Italy
• Argentina
• United Kingdom
• Costa Rica
• Panama
• Spain

7. • Faster vote count and tabulation
• More accurate results as human error is excluded
• Efficient handling of complicated electoral
systems
• Improved presentation of complicated ballot
papers
• Increased convenience for voters
• Potentially increased participation and turnout
• More attuned to the needs of an increasingly
mobile society

8. • Prevention of fraud in polling stations and
during the transmission and tabulation of
results by reducing human intervention.
• Increased accessibility
• Possibility of multilingual user interfaces that
can serve a multilingual electorate better than
paper ballots
• Potential long-term cost savings through
savings in poll worker time

9. • Lack of Transparency
• Limited openness and understanding of the system for
non-experts
• Lack of agreed standards for e-voting systems
• Potential violation of the secrecy of the vote
• Increased infrastructure and environmental requirements
• Increased security requirements for protecting the voting
system
• Reduced level of control by the election administration
• Limited recount possibilities
• Limited support for disable voters
• Need for additional voter education campaigns.
• Possible conflict with the existing legal framework

10. Future in Pakistan
• Facing an issue of having real democracy
• Pakistan’s first step towards e-voting is to
authenticate the voters
• NADRA done 86.1 million registration for
election 2013
• ECP done door to door verification
• World’s largest voter verification is introduced
through SMS

11. Future in Pakistan
37 million unverified voters identified during this
process
• Phase1
• Phase2
• Phase3

12. Future in Pakistan
• The system aims at ensuring transparency and
rigging free elections
• Electronic thumb verification of each voter shall
be done at the respective polling station
EVM Structure
• Voter Identification Unit
• Vote Casting Unit
• Result Management Unit

13. Future in Pakistan
Lack of transparency
Lack of agreed standards for e-voting systems
No Paper audit trails
Reduced level of control by the election
administration because of high vendor- and/or
technology-dependence
Missing support for disable voters
Need for additional voter education campaigns
Possible conflict with the existing legal framework