Optimization of an Electronic Signature Scheme in a Voting System in a Distributed Architecture Segundo Moisés Toapanta Toapanta 1, a , Génesis Alexandra Contreras Pacheco 1,b , Danny Wilfrido Barona Valencia 1, c , Luis Enrique Mafla Gallegos 2, d 1 Computer Science Department, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana Ecuador, Robles 107 Chambers, Guayaquil, Guayas, 042590630, Ecuador 2 Faculty of Engineering Systems, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ladrón de Guevara E11-253, Quito, Pichincha, 022976300, Ecuador a stoapanta@ups.edu.ec, b gcontrerasp@est.ups.edu.ec, c dbarona@ups.edu.ec, d enrique.muflal@epn. edu.ec Keywords: electronic signature, encryption, reliability, suffrage, asymmetric algorithm, transparency Abstract: It was considered that the security of information is an important factor in an electoral process in a country; for the frequent problems that have been detected in the scanning of votes to expedite the count. The objective is to analyze a method of vote scanning that allows improving security, administration, and implementation so that vote counting is faster and more secure compared to the traditional voting system. The deductive method and the exploratory investigation were used to analyze the information of the articles of the reference. It turned out to be a prototype of a voting scan algorithm based on the OCR reader scanner that was proposed and analyzed; for the scanning of the votes and projection of results via the Internet for the next elections is to improve the integrity of the information. It was concluded that a prototype of an adequate algorithm for vote scanning is an alternative to improve a traditional system that will be integrated into a voting system. 1. Introduction At a time when technological progress represents a fundamental and essential part of human life, it was to be assumed that the implementation of an electronic voting system would not be left behind, which has become popular today, becoming a very important issue to keep in mind. Electronic voting is legally prohibited, and the main reason for this rejection is due to the security of the electronic voting system, the latent possibility of an interference in the vote and the doubts of the reliability of the recount, to as any device or machine of technological use can present a failure in its operation[1], these so-called disadvantages revive the denial of these nations to the use of the mentioned system of suffrage. Due to the situations mentioned above, this work seeks to propose, of course after a thorough investigation of the data encryption methods used in an electronic signature scheme, a 2018 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and Information Engineering (ICCSIE 2018) Published by CSP © 2018 the Authors 242