Election voting has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional voting procedures, with testimony from nations around the Western world demonstrating varying degrees of effectiveness. Many developing nations are now considering it as an alternative or addition to traditional paper balloting, which is still the most common way of voting in most of these countries. However, due to issues such as digital divides, poor literacy, norms and beliefs, high poverty level, and so on, the voting populace's acceptance of this technology is a crucial element that has to be considered before its actual deployment. From a different perspective, Due to the unique nature of developing country ICT infrastructure issues, it is necessary to analyse the elements that will impact adoption decisions and eventual usage when introducing electronic voting, so that the emerging system does not become unfeasible for the intended users. An empirical assessment of the elements influencing the choice to use electronic voting was conducted in this study. The goal of this study was to look at the possibilities and intentions of mobile voting (which is a sort of electronic voting) among a sample group of Nigerian electorates. An enhanced Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used in the study, which included Subjective norm, Perceived compatibility, and other factors. It was proposed to incorporate perceived privacy, perceived security, perceived pricing value, and perceived trust into the original TAM components. A total of 1364 sample data were acquired from a chosen group of electorates who had engaged in at least one electioneering process in Nigeria at some point in the past. After that, the data was statistically evaluated using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Except for perceived privacy, all variables have a substantial impact on the electorate's behavioural intention to utilise mobile voting, according to the findings.
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