International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395 -0056 Volume: 04 Issue: 05 | May -2017 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2017, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 5.181 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 2039 Electronic Voting For Ghana, the Way Forward. (A Case Study in Ghana) Ayannor Issaka Baba 1 , Joseph Kobina Panford 2 , James Ben Hayfron-Acquah 3 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Department of Computer Science Kumasi, Ghana. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract - The purpose of this research work is to find solutions to the problems associated with the paper base voting system of Ghana through the introduction of Electronic voting system. The research has found out that to solve the electoral questions after the 2012 general election (whose outcome was challenged at the Supreme Court of Ghana), we need a system that will reduce human involvement in the election process as much as possible. Since each of the above criticism pointed to somebody somewhere trying to or manipulating electoral process to the benefit of a particular candidate. An electoral system that reduces human involvement in the electoral process drastically is the Electronic voting system (Yinyeh and Gbolagade, 2013). Quantitative and qualitative are the two main research approaches used in this work. The difference between the two is that qualitative research gains a deeper understanding of a situation or phenomena whiles quantitative research is to find an explanation to a situation or a phenomena (Leedy et al, 2005). A voting method which we use electronic means to express and or collect the voters intention is known as Electronic voting (E-voting). Some requirements of E- voting are; it must be comprehensible to the voters entirely, it must be user friendly regardless of infirmity, disability or age. When electronic voting is well engineered it is surely a better improvement of over the current paper based voting system. However a faulty designed E-voting system will also produce bad results. This research work has produced software that can be used to conduct an electronic voting in Ghana during elections. This research work was necessitated by some delays in declaring our election results, human interventions and tampering with election results, high cost of conducting results and so on. Keywords: Elections, Electronic voting-voting. 1. INTRODUCTION Though Ghana has had successful democratic elections, there have been disagreements when it comes to the fairness or accuracy of the results. The software from this research will produce a free and fair election results. An electronic voting system is one where the voterǯs intentions are express and collected through an electronic means. The electronic voting system will make up for the weaknesses of the current document (paper) based voting system. 2. PROBLEM STATEMENT The current document based system of voting in Ghana is fast losing its popularity since Ghanaian elections results are challenged in one way or the other. The 2012 election results even had to be challenged in our supreme court. There is there for the need for another method of conducting our elections. An electoral system that reduces human involvement in the electoral process drastically is the Electronic voting system (Yinyeh and Gbolagade, 2013). Thus, this research work has produced an electronic voting system for Ghanaian elections. Electronic voting refers to a voting method where the intentions of the voter is expressed and or collected using electronic gadgets. ȋSrikeerthi ∞ Kumara,ʹͲͳͶȌ. E-voting technology includes the following; voting through punched cards, voting through optical scan voting and voting through systems and specialized voting kiosk and so on. ( Dhanlimbu, 2007). It also includes remote internet voting. This refers to the transportation of votes using private networks such as MAN, WAN etc. Broadly speaking, there are two main types of E-voting: 3. RELATED WORK Three main issues in the paper-base voting system that the E-voting system is able to solve are; voting from any location and time, security related issues and identifying every voter accurately to avoid double voting and identity stealing. To solve the above problems we reviewed the E-voting systems of the USA and Estonia. With regards to voting from any location and time of your comfort, in the US An attempt to establish a type of voting system using the Internet kwon as Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)) meant primarily for military stationed abroad was met with serious resistance from the public and finally abandoned.