TOWARDS A GENERIC E-ELECTION DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURE

This article flcuses on a challenging area of digital society, i.e. electronic election and the main objective is to develop architecture to transfer the traditional election to electronic election. Accordingly , the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional election systems in a developing societyare highlighted;consequently the specifications of pure e-election , semi e-election and traditional elections are defined and three important driving forces of e-election in the real world are introduced lessons are learmed fromstudiying traditional approach to election within an organization responsible for forming trade councils of various industries via election among stakeholders.

TOWARDS A GENERIC E-ELECTION DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURE Keywords:

electronic election , traditional election , driving forces , EML , service oriented architecture (SOA) , readiness , e-infrastructure , e-participation , e-election roadmap , measurement , developing country , digital society.