Election results' verification in e-voting systems in Kenya: a review

Abstract

Politics is at the centre of a nation’s daily life, and so are elections. There is need to project continuous, verified, and validated results simultaneously to all stakeholders. This is imperative because it not only helps in bridging the information gap from the time an election exercise is announced to the time a winner is declared, but also in shunning any probable election dispute and high temperatures that arise with suspected fraud. Provisioning of a suitable e-verification system with verifiable features goes a long way to ensure that election results are validated and thus accepted by all stakeholders. This review looked into various everification systems for authenticating election results.