U-Vote: Ubiquitous Voting Model For General Election in Global Pandemic

Abstract

for democratic countries, elections are usually scheduled according to applicable law. At the end of 2019, the world was shocked by the discovery of a new corona virus variant in Wuhan province - China, which was later named Covid-19. Not only in China, all countries in the world are affected by a pandemic in which people are not allowed to touch one another and gather directly. All social, cultural and political activities cannot be carried out, including elections that are scheduled according to the constitution. E-voting technology that has been around for about 30 years can be the solution as an alternative method to carry out elections in the pandemic era. The contribution of this research is the ubiquitous voting model for general elections, changing traditional e-voting for elections in the pandemic era, so that in practice, voters do not need to go to the polling station. Elections use the existing technology in the community and are carried out wherever voters are located, so that elections will continue to take place during the pandemic.