Design and Development of COVID-19 Pandemic Situation-Based Remote Voting System

The electronic voting machine (EVM), a device within the voting system in India, provided a digital mechanism in the overall voting process of various elections. Remote voting is the process of a unified and globally unrestricted voter’s system, as any voter can provide their selection of vote to the particular candidate of their local from remote/distance, i.e., within in India or out of India. The voter is not forced to visit their unique polling station to vote. In such a case, the achievement of 100% vote in entire national elections is highly possible. The proposed COVID-19 Pandemic - Remote Voting System (C19P-RVS) further provides the social distancing (SD) in the means of a remote voting scheme to ensure the hygiene culture of the society with care and precautions. In addition, the work provides novelty by validating the voter at the initial stage of the voting process as they initiate the remote voting. It collects the geo-coordinates of the voter location and verifies the address data with the validation server. If the validation passes, the voter is permitted to enter further to do the remote voting process, and if not, the voter is restricted from the voting process. Even the voter’s address validation passes, the duplication verification for votes is done in the next stage to identify the voter have already voted or not? The reliability, integrity, authenticity, and completeness with confidentiality of operations within the remote access and accomplishment of tasks of intended purpose are focused in the C19P-RVS.