Modeling User Acceptance of Electronic Voting: An Extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) Approac
With testimonials of its introduction indicating varying degrees of success in some countries of the Western world, election voting has emerged as a significant alternative to traditional voting methods. Lately, many developing countries are also looking at their opportunities as an alternative or complement to conventional paper balloting, which in most of these countries is the main voting process. However the acceptance of this technology by the voting population is a major factor that needs to be weighed before its actual adoption, including factors such as digital divisions, low levels of literacy, norms and values, high levels of poverty, etc. From another point of view, due to the peculiarity of developing countries' contextual ICT infrastructural problems, it is important to explore the factors affecting adoption decisions and future usage when planning to implement electronic voting, so that the emerging method would not end up being impractical for the target users. An empirical analysis was carried out in this review of the factors affecting the adoption decision of electronic voting. More precisely, this study aimed to explore the possibilities and intentions of the selected sample population of voters in Nigeria for mobile voting (which is a form of electronic voting). An extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was proposed in the study that incorporates Subjective Standard, Perceived Compatibility, Perceived Privacy, Perceived Protection, Perceived Price Value and Perceived Confidence into the original TAM constructs. A total of 1364 sample data were obtained from a selected population of voters who had taken part in at least one electioneering process in Nigeria at one time or another. Using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), the data was then statistically analysed. The findings obtained show that except for perceived privacy, all variables have a major impact on the behavioural intention of the voters to use mobile voting. Please see the link :- https://www.journalcjast.com/index.php/CJAST/article/view/30973 [if !supportLineBreakNewLine] [endif]