A Candidate Aware Internet Voting System For Indian Scenario

India is the largest democratic nation in the world. Democracy is considered as one of the best forms of government that allow the citizens to cast a vote and elect a government of their choice. A vote can change the future of the country as well as the fate of the citizens. It gives the ultimate power to shape the destiny of the country. According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), the number of electors registered is 834 million and the highest ever turnout of the voters is about 66.40%. The main reason behind this low turnout was due to constraints in the current (traditional) voting system. This paper suggests a new online voting method for Indian government elections to increase the number of voter's participation in the election process. The proposed method employs two approaches 1) Novel candidate verifiability mechanism and 2) OTP (one-time-password) mechanism. The candidate verifiability allows the candidate to check the integrity of the vote and OTP acts as an additional authentication factor to identify the voter.