The transparency and trustworthiness of any electoral system is what characterized it to be free and fair that in turn is indispensable to democracy sustenance. Although elections in South Africa (SA) has been free and fair as reported, the system neither completely guarantees one man registers/votes once nor assures that a vote is cast by authentic persons. Consequently, election fraud as multiple registration, multiple voting, figure falsification and impersonation are not exception, though remains unnoticed. It may be as a result of lack of strong security measures in place at both voter registration centers and voting stations. With situation of this kind, the trustworthiness and the integrity of the elections may be threatened or compromised, and even result resulting to failure or corruption of the democracy. Therefore, integrity of the elections has to be upheld. This requires the application of relevant information and communication technologies (ICTs) tools into the electoral process to enhance both voter registration and identification of voter processes. In this paper, the objective is to propose a form of real-time voter registration and identification. In addition, a novel system called VOTEX is developed that implements the stated problems using radio frequency identification (RFID) and biometric technologies. Also, the benefits and limitations of the application to the SA government are discussed.

Elections Voters e-democracy Real-time Registration identification Finger print