Management of Sustainable, Credible and Integrated Electronic Voting (E-Voting) System For Bangladesh

• Authors: M. Mesbahuddin Sarker , M Nazrul Islam
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this modern age countries worldwide evince a growing interest in electronic voting (e-Voting), which brings the idea of modernizing elections through electronic systems and provides many advantages such as efficiency, disseminating results more quickly, and in a cost-effective way. The paper gives a brief overview on recent developments of electronic voting systems in Bangladesh by using electronic voting machine (EVM) and addresses some strategies and principles in order to improve accessibility, easiness, accuracy, and security of election for better democratic process.

Keywords

EN

E-Voting; Electronic Voting Machine (EVM); E-Government; E-Democracy

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Management of Sustainable Development
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 15-21

Dates

published

2013-06-01

online

2013-08-28

Contributors

author

M. Mesbahuddin Sarker

• Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

author

M Nazrul Islam

• Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/msd-2013-0003