Literature Survey Analysis of Electronic Voting System Implemented in Various Countries

India is one of the world’s largest democracies with a community of 1.1 billion; India has an electorate of 714 million persons over 828 thousands polling stations, 1.37 million voting machines and 5.5 million polling officials cover 543 parliamentary constituencies. Past experience of electoral process enforced us to focus on the use of latest technology in E-voting process. The current voting mechanism has many security problems, and it is very difficult to prove even simple security aspects about them. A voting system that can be demonstrated correct has many considerations. Some of the major concerns for a government regarding electronic voting systems are to expand election activities and to minimize the election expenses. Still there is some opportunity of work in electronic voting system in terms of authenticity of voters and to protect the electronic voting machine from offenders. This chapter provides an overview of the experiences of other countries using electronic voting system. The comparative study on the adoption of electronic voting systems implemented at the international level is described in this chapter. Rest of the chapter is organized as follows: Section 2.1 presents the introduction followed by the definition of electronic voting in Section 2.2. International standard of electronic voting has been briefly given in Section 2.3 followed by the comparison of the features in different system in Section 2.4. Section 2.5 presents the comparative analysis of electronic voting systems and finally chapter has been summarized in Section 2.6.