Re-engineering conventional voting system through ICT: University's perspectives / Khairul Nizam Abd Halim, Razulaimi Razali and Muhd Eizan Shafiq Abd Aziz

This paper focuses on the prospective of implementing an electronic voting system using web-based application technology. This research begins by
considering university as a main sample and user before it can be planned to go further, probably to the first and second level of election which required several fields to be studied and identification of entities that will involve. An election conducted at the third level, for example, at the organisation or society level, in this context at the university level, usually involve the Student Representatives Council (MPP) election. An election will be conducted to appoint new representatives that will serve for MPP Currently, conventional methods are being used at the back-end and front-end of the election. The emergence of lCT has driven researchers to incorporate ICT in the current electoral processes, which will cause changes to the current processes. Previous research have shown the advantages of lCT used in electoral processes. It is able to reduce cost and time, besides vote blank which is a very common issue occurred in the current electoral processes uses ballot paper. Based on identified issues, this paper tries to propose a new method inconducting the MPP selection that will reduce or land eliminate the identified issues. A generic methodology which is based on BPR is used in re-designing the current electoral throughout this research and SDLC is used to develop the prototype of electronic voting system. Continuous re-designing is needed in order to provide better services in all aspects of e-electoral processes, where, further research on certain aspects such as security, trustworthy, user acceptance and few others will be conducted phase by phase.