THE term electronic voting and also known as e-voting is a term inclusive of many systems and methods of voting. This includes booths equipped with electronic devices, software, peripherals, processing systems, equipment, tools and screen networks and means of communications. Qadah and Taha (2007) define the term electronic voting as the "use of computers or computerized equipment to cast votes in an election."
The authors continue to emphasize that "e-voting aims at increasing participation, lowering costs of running elections and improving the accuracy of the results." According to the administration and cost of elections, electoral knowledge network (2010), countries such as the USA, Brazil and India have successfully implemented e-voting to address various challenges associated with the manual paper based electoral process.
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