Application of Cryptographic Sciences in E-Voting System

The requirement of electronic voting system (e-voting system) is felt worldwide since decade. The quantum of work required in traditional way of elections in any country is very huge and cumbersome. It is felt that ITES(Information Technology Enabled Services) and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) can help in a big way to give solutions to this problem as many problems has already been solved successfully by ICT in the past all over the world. As we know that no system is perfect, so is the case for e-voting system also. The security and secrecy of votes casted by the voters is a big issue in e-voting systems. The trust and confidence of the voters in the elctronic method of voting has to be very high. The use of various cryptographic methods can help to make e-voting system secure and safe, so the voters confidence can be gained. The voting system should be such that it is convenient, correct, robust to any kind of fraudulent, consistence, coherencies, secure and transparent. In this paper application of the cryptographic methods is suggested so the e-voting system is made to the expectations of all the stake holders.