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Concept Note For EVM

The document discusses designing and implementing an electronic voting machine for Ethiopia to replace the previous paper ballot system. The proposed electronic voting machine would consist of a control unit and ballot unit to allow voters to cast votes electronically, reducing time and resources compared to the previous system. The main objectives are to design a device for more transparent and efficient elections while reducing costs and introducing a faster voting process.

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Concept Note For EVM

The document discusses designing and implementing an electronic voting machine for Ethiopia to replace the previous paper ballot system. The proposed electronic voting machine would consist of a control unit and ballot unit to allow voters to cast votes electronically, reducing time and resources compared to the previous system. The main objectives are to design a device for more transparent and efficient elections while reducing costs and introducing a faster voting process.

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Designing and Implementation of Electronic Voting Machine for Ethiopia

By
Arun Radhakrishnan and Melaku Matewos
Executive summary

Voting is the most vital process of democratic country like Ethiopia, through which
people can determine their decision. In all elections which have been conducted earlier in
Ethiopia, a voter casts his/her vote to a candidate by putting a mark in the ballot paper against
the name of the candidate, then folds the ballot paper, puts it in the ballot box and finally
counting the polled votes. This process consumes long time, consumes more resources, very
much prone to errors and can be concluded that this method is not fast and accurate. To avoid the
above drawback of voting process in Ethiopia, a new method is proposed using electronic means
i.e Electronic Voting machine (EVM). EVM is an electronic device used to record votes
automatically without the need of manual operation to avoid ballot paper, ballot box, stamps and
people to process the voting.
The EVM consists of two units namely control unit and ballot unit and both are wired.
Ballot unit is used to cast the votes by the voter and control unit is used to control the voting
mechanism by the polling officer. The main advantages of this new system are easy to carry and
maintain. The new system consumes very less time for the voters to poll their votes, it does not
use large amount of resources such as papers and the counting system is more accurate when
compared to the old system. In this new system the results can be identified within one day itself.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE
The main objective of this research is to Design and Implement Electronic Voting Machine for
Ethiopia.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
To design a device which helps to conduct a transparent and efficient election.
To reduce the amount of resources consumed to conduct elections.
To introduce modern and faster election process in Ethiopia.

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