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Abstract

The aim of this paper to outline the E-voting system readiness and design in Jordan, the researchers illustrate the guideline for developing and designing E-voting system in Jordan election. Moreover, the paper used TAM model to test the Acceptance of the proposed system from voter’s perspective and the readiness of the system to be used.

Introduction

Governments in many countries around the world try to utilize the information and communication technologies to transform traditional government services to electronic government or digital government. In Jordan, The government has started implementing a program of an e-Government in 2002, which aims to improve its service delivery and increase the involvement of citizens through the penetration of technology. A voting system which is one of the significant services which has been conducted and controlled by a government still very old, which can call legacy systems.

The current traditional “paper-based” voting system which has been used in Jordan is encountering many problems and complications which we will present major of them later. However, the successive governments have tried to conduct the democratic approaches through several practices which have been executed to improve the variety of life aspects (Ilieva, 2011), but with the rapid advances in information technology and information transfer speed, it is still the parliamentary election system in Jordan, which is one of the democratic approaches in Jordan relies on traditional methods of implementation.

In Jordan, it undergoes democratic elections periodically. It holds parliament elections every four years to elect its legislative body. Municipal elections in Jordan also take place once every four years to elect the governing boards for the various Jordanian municipalities.

And often times due to technical limitations, in cases of fraud in some areas because of the influence of politicians on people. In addition, unreliability of the performance of the election because of political money, the results of the voting are not announced until an audit takes place, or where a re-count is placed in order. Introducing irregularities in the final count results.

Consequently, it is should be a significant research work to deal with these problems and complications by building an electronic voting system (e-voting) which should be able to control the entire processes of elections.

Section snippets

E-voting system in practice: scanning the landscape

Currently, E-voting systems face a number of obstacles to be overcome before they could be used as a successor to the current paper-based voting system. A new proposed e-voting system should match different requirements; functional and non functional.

According to the recommendation report by election monitoring program and the performance of the elected councils in Jordan (Monitor: December 2015), that said there is a need for a mechanism to vote through the “house of representatives and

Technology acceptance model (TAM)

The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been used in research to explore the acceptance of new e-technology or new e-services (Davis, 1989, Davis and Venkatesh, 1996). TAM is one of the most effective contribution of Ajzen and Fishbein’s theory of reasoned action (TRA). Davis’s technology acceptance model (Davis, 1989, Davis et al., 1989) is the most widely utilized models of acceptance and usage of innovated technology by users.

A relationship has been found between the beliefs of users about 

Research design

Research design reported here provides a guideline for action for investigating E-voting in Jordan. The objectives of the study are determined which leads the research question formulation. To ensure that the information collected is appropriate for solving the problem, the researcher also must determine the e-voting readiness questionnaire, the sampling methodology, and the schedule. This section covers research questions, hypotheses and data collection and analysis for answering them. The

System development

The Design is implemented in this phase. The techniques for implementation will of course vary depending on the artifact to be constructed. This project is a web-based system which detailed requirements and suggestion are already looked into in the previous stages (see Fig. 4, Fig. 5, Fig. 6).

At this stage, firstly, we should understand the proposed system behavior by using the use case modeling, which is the best way to determine the processes flow. As shown in Fig. 1, the general e-voting

Conclusion

In this paper researcher tries to outline a conceptual framework for E-voting system to apply it in Jordan, the paper goes with literature, then system design to make it more applicable in Jordan. Moreover the paper discussed the readiness for applying E-voting system in Jordan Based on TAM model.

The researchers propose a solution to this issue by proposing an e-voting system for Jordanian elections. In order to so, the research is of two folds: firstly to study the readiness of the Jordanian…