MCDM for Candidate Selection in E-Voting

E-votingisoneofthemostimportantcomponentsofe-democracyandformsthebasisofademocratic governancesystem.Votingresultsalwaysleadtoabroaddebateintermsofcandidateselectionand whetherthecandidateelectedtoapositionissuitableforthatposition.Atpresent,theselectionof qualifiedpersonnelandtheirappointmenttoresponsiblepositionsinpublicadministrationisoneof thetopicalissues.InthisarticleisproposedanMCDMforselectionofcandidatesine-voting.Criteria forthecandidates’selectionaredeterminedandtherelationofeachcandidatetoothercandidatesis assessedusingabinarymatrix.Candidateratingiscalculatedaccordingtoallcriteria.Anumerical experiment is provided for candidate evaluation on the base of the selected criteria and ranked accordingtotheimportanceofthecriteria.Theproposedmodelallowsselectingacandidatewith competenciesbasedonthecriteriasetoutinthee-votingprocessandmakingmoreeffectivedecisions. KEywoRDS E-government, E-democracy, E-voting, MCDM, Candidate Selection, Election, E-Government Maturity Model, Governance

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