Editorial illustration of a low-power digital voting device that can work during internet interruptions

بَاحِثُونَ مَغارِبَةٌ يُطَوِّرُونَ نِظامًا لِلتَّصْوِيتِ الرَّقْمِيِّ يَعْمَلُ مِنْ دُونِ إِنْتَرْنِتٍ

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طَوَّرَ بَاحِثُونَ مَغارِبَةٌ نِظامًا أَوَّلِيًّا لِلتَّصْوِيتِ الرَّقْمِيِّ اسْمُهُ «أَدابْتْ فُوت». وَنُشِرَتْ دِراسَتُهُمْ فِي الرّابِعِ مِنْ سِبْتَمْبَرَ ٢٠٢٦. وَيَنْتَسِبُ الْفَرِيقُ إِلى جامِعَةِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَوَّلِ بِوَجْدَةَ وَجامِعَةِ عَبْدِ الْمالِكِ السَّعْدِيِّ بِتِطْوانَ.

صُمِّمَ النِّظامُ لِيَعْمَلَ عِنْدَ ضَعْفِ الاِتِّصالِ بِالْإِنْتَرْنِتِ أَوِ انْقِطاعِهِ. فَهُوَ يَتَعَرَّفُ إِلى الْمُشارِكِ عَنْ طَريقِ صُورَةِ وَجْهِهِ، ثُمَّ يُسَجِّلُ الصَّوْتَ مَحَلِّيًّا. وَعِنْدَ عَوْدَةِ الاِتِّصالِ، يُرْسِلُ النِّظامُ الْبَياناتِ إِلى النِّظامِ الْمَرْكَزِيِّ.

أُجْرِيَ اخْتِبارٌ مَيْدانِيٌّ لِلنِّظامِ فِي النّاظُورِ فِي دِيسَمْبَرَ ٢٠٢٤، بِمُشارَكَةِ ٣٠٠ شَخْصٍ. وَكانَ الاِتِّصالُ بِالشَّبَكَةِ مُتاحًا فِي ٣٥٪ مِنْ وَقْتِ الاِخْتِبارِ فَقَطْ، وَلٰكِنَّ النِّظامَ عَمِلَ فِي ٩٩٫٢٪ مِنَ الْوَقْتِ. وَقالَ الْبَاحِثُونَ إِنَّ مُدَّةَ التَّصْوِيتِ كَانَتْ أَقْصَرَ مِنْ مُدَّةِ التَّصْوِيتِ بِالْوَرَقِ.

وَما زالَ «أَدابْتْ فُوت» نِظامًا بَحْثِيًّا، وَلَيْسَ نِظامًا مُعْتَمَدًا فِي الاِنْتِخاباتِ الْمَغْرِبِيَّةِ. وَيُقِرُّ الْفَرِيقُ بِأَنَّ التَّعَرُّفَ إِلى الْوُجُوهِ يَحْتاجُ إِلى تَحْسِينٍ. كَما أَنَّ أَيَّ نِظامٍ لِلتَّصْوِيتِ الرَّقْمِيِّ يَحْتاجُ إِلى حِمايَةِ الْبَياناتِ وَرِقابَةٍ مُسْتَقِلَّةٍ.

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Moroccan Researchers Develop an Offline Digital Voting System

Moroccan researchers developed an early digital-voting system called AdaptVote. Their study was published on September 4, 2026. The team is affiliated with Mohammed First University in Oujda and Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tetouan.

The system was designed to work when internet access is weak or interrupted. It identifies a participant through an image of their face, then stores the vote locally. When the connection returns, the system sends the data to the central system.

A field test of the system was conducted in Nador in December 2024 with 300 participants. Network access was available for only 35% of the test time, but the system worked for 99.2% of the time. The researchers said that digital voting took less time than paper voting.

AdaptVote is still a research system, not a system approved for Moroccan elections. The team acknowledges that facial recognition needs improvement. Any digital-voting system also needs data protection and independent oversight.

Key Vocabulary

Arabic Part of speech English
نِظامًا أَوَّلِيًّا noun phrase an early prototype system
التَّصْوِيتِ الرَّقْمِيِّ noun phrase digital voting
الاِتِّصالِ noun connection
انْقِطاعِهِ noun its interruption
يُسَجِّلُ verb records
الْبَياناتِ noun data
اخْتِبارٌ مَيْدانِيٌّ noun phrase field test
مُتاحًا adjective available
مُعْتَمَدًا adjective approved
حِمايَةِ noun protection
رِقابَةٍ مُسْتَقِلَّةٍ noun phrase independent oversight

Sources

  1. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy / MDPI: AdaptVote: FPGA-Accelerated Blockchain E-Voting with Age-Invariant Biometric Authentication and Adaptive Cryptography
  2. Hespress: تجربة مغربية للتصويت الرقمي تجمع التعرف على الوجه والبلوك تشين

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