A

SYNOPSIS

FOR

MAJOR PROJECT

ON

Online National Polling

SUBMITTED BY

Rohit Soni (0161cs071081 )

Darshit Patel (0161cs071062 )
Anirudh Bhattacharya(0161cs071007 )

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
In
Computer Science and Engineering

UNDER THE GUIDENCE OF

Mr. Gorisankar Prajapati
(Lecturer, CSE)

DEC-2010
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
VNS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
(AFFILIATED TO RGTU)
BHOPAL (M.P.)
 Contents

1. Abstract

2. Introduction

3. Problem in Exisisting System

4. Proposed System

5. Block Diagram

6. Technology Used

6.1 Front End

6.2 Back End

7. Hardware & software Requirement

8. References
 Abstract

The technology of electronic voting (e-voting) comes into existence.

By using information technology, E-voting system can cast and count votes with
higher convenience and efficiency, even make the electoral procedures simple and
reduce the mistake rate of ballot examination.
We live in a democracy and voting is one of our fundamental duties as
responsible citizens of the country ,but nowhere around the country a 100% people
come to vote during the elections in their territory. There have been many reasons for
that some of them are:
• In the rural areas the influential people keep their men at the polling booths to
threaten the common man to vote for them .
• There are many portions of the country like the North East where there is locally
sponsored terrorism, at such places the security conditions are also not very bright, so
naturally people feel afraid to come out of their houses and go to vote
• Net savvy new generation want hassle free voting system. Also the people in metros
want a system through which they can vote for their territory without traveling.
• If a person is out of city where he live than he face lots of problem in voting or he
cannot vote

Keeping in mind these situations and to improve the state of democracy in the
country Online Polling System can be thought as a solution, in conjunction with the
ongoing current manual voting system.
 Introduction

We live in a democracy and voting is one of our fundamental duties as

responsible citizens of the country, but nowhere around the country a 100% people
come to vote during the elections in their territory. Basically, a voting system has
four required characteristics:
1. Accuracy. The goal of any voting system is to establish the intent of each
individual voter, and translate those intents into a final tally. This
characteristic also includes security: It should be impossible to change
someone else’s vote, ballot stuff, destroy votes, or otherwise affect the
accuracy of the final tally.

2. Anonymity. Secret ballots are fundamental to democracy, and voting systems

must be designed to facilitate voter anonymity.

3. Scalability.:- Voting systems need to be able to handle very large elections.

One hundred million people vote for president in the United States. About 372
million people voted in India’s June elections. The complexity of an election
is another issue.

4. Speed. Voting systems should produce results quickly. This is particularly

important in the United States, where people expect to learn the results of the
day’s election before time.
Through the centuries, different technologies have done their best. New
computerized voting machines promise even more efficiency, and Internet voting
even more convenience.
 Problem in Existing System –

1. In the rural areas the influential people keep their men at the polling booths to
threaten the common man to vote for them.
2. There are many portions of the country like the North-East where there is
locally sponsored terrorism, at such places the security conditions are also not
very bright, so naturally people feel afraid to come out of their houses and go
to vote.
3. It is manual system and so it slows down the speed and also takes time to
declare the results.
4. The existing system may not provide security to the polling system. No matter
how tight computer security may be, someone must ultimately have
unsupervised access to the system, and computer data files are simply too easy
to delete or manipulate.
5. As Computerized machines lost votes, subtracted votes instead of adding
them, and doubled vote. This system did not provide secure registration and
profile management of all the users properly.
6. Maintain nominee, filed officers, user details is lengthy tasks.
7. Paper ballots in sealed ballot boxes cannot be easily "deleted" or manipulated
as long as they are in the custody of more than one person.
8. Also the people in metros want a system through which they can vote for their
territory without traveling.
Keeping in mind these situations and to improve the state of democracy in the
country Online Polling System can be thought as a solution, in conjunction with the
ongoing current manual voting system. Online voting system can be prove beneficial
and which increases the speed and accuracy
 PROPOSED SYSTEM

1. On-line Voting System is a web based system that facilitates the running of
elections and surveys online. This system has been developed to simplify the process
of organizing elections and make it convenient for voters to vote remotely from their
home computers while taking into consideration security, anonymity and providing
auditioning capabilities.
2. The development of this new system contains the some activities, which try to
automate the entire process keeping in the view of database integration  approach.
3. This new system helps in avoiding mismanagement (verify users profiles,
accept, reject users).
4. And also we can maintain all type of users details properly. Users are
individuals who interact with the system. All user interaction is performed remotely
through the user's web browser.
5. Users are categorized into three classes: Administrator, Officers and Voters.
6. A running version of the system will have only one Administrator but it typically
has multiple returning officers and voters.
6.1 The administrator is responsible for managing user accounts, polls, system
resources and logs and for the health and safekeeping of the system.
6.2 The officers have the responsibility of managing a poll as assigned by the
administrator.
6.3 And the voters only have the ability to submit ballots on polls in which they
are admitted.
7. The system will also keep track of non-voters or fraud voters so that proper
notifications can be sent to the administrator for the correct result of the election.
We have 2 options for voting in online system, i.e –
a. vote from home b. vote from a polling booth
 Vote from Home-

• The users of the system would login to a legitimate government website using
their unique-id provided by the government to all its citizens or atleast to all
its legitimate voters say above 18 yrs of age.
 Once authenticated they would then be served a webpage showing the names
of all the candidates and they would cast their vote by check marking the radio
box against the candidates name.
 After giving vote legal voter will be positively acknowledged by the
administrator(server),if the voter is illegal the system would then flag off the
user as "Already Voted" so as to prevent multiple voting by the same user.

Vote from a Polling Booth –

 In this the voters would be required to come to the polling booths just as
they would normally do to cast their vote.
 The voters will be maintained in a queue,and the officers sitted on the
system,will verify the users by giving their voter id to the system.
 BLOCK DIAGRAM-

Database interaction with all

 Administrator manages the polling
system
 Vote from home (online voting)
 Software and Hardware Requirements

Software Requirements-
Front End:
 Web Technology- JSP, SERVLET,HTML4.0 and XML1.0,Ajax
 Web Server- Apache Tomcat
Back End:
 Oracle10g
Hardware Requirements-
 Operating System- Windows 9X/2000/XP
 Processor- pentium4
 RAM- 256Mb
 Hard Disk-20GB

CONCLUSION

1. The new voting protocol became not only simpler and got a higher security
level but also now offers a better integration of the general public .
2. Recently accomplished voting projects in the Germany Telekom Group
exemplified the simple use of online voting systems and the great advantages
concerning economics and democracy
 ADVANTAGES OF GOING ONLINE

It would SAVE,
1) Paper and thus the environment
2) Logistics
3) Money
4) Greater Performance
5) Also it would help to process the information faster and come out with the result in
just a matter of 1-2 days once voting day is completed.
6) And lastly it would encourage people to vote since they could vote from the
comforts of their home.

Team Members & their Roles-

 Rohit Soni (Designing and Testing)

 Darshit Patel(Analysis and Coding)
 Anirudh Bhattacharya(Analysis and Designing)

Refrences –

1. www.ibm.com
2. www.seminarproject .com