THE ELECTRONIC VOTING ADMISSION USING A CELL PHONE AND ITS EVALUATION

The electronic voting in the voting place has been realized in some local government in Japan. However, The electronic voting admission has not been developed. This paper proposes a method for the electronic voting admission tickets by email using a cell phone. This method can coexist with the current voting admission ticket by postal mail. A two-dimensional symbol is used for the format of the communication data from the server to the cell phone, and also the communication data between the cell phone and the terminal in the reception desk of the voting place. To keep the privacy and security of the voter, the encryption and authentication techniques are used. According to the cost evaluation, the cost for voting admission remarkably decreases by using the proposed electronic voting admission ticket. The prototype using a server, a notebook PC, a two-dimensional symbol scanner, and a cell phone has been developed and evaluated.