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ADVANCED ONLINE VOTING SYSTEMPallavi Divya1, Piyush Aggarwal2, Sanjay Ojha3

1,2,3(School Of Management, Center For Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Noida

Abstract-This paper deals with the online voting system thatfacilities user to vote in different languages, votingschemes in rural areas through televoting. Televotingextends to the voting by SMS (text message) via a mobilecell phone. This also facilities absentee voting. Absenteevoting can be performed through e-mails. We purpose anapproach for effectively user-friendly applicationespecially targets the weak users such as elderly users.This system guarantees privacy of voters, publicverifiability, and robustness againsta coalition of malicious authorities.

KeywordsTelevoting, Absentee voting, CSS, HTML,Java Script, JDBC, JSP, MYSQL, ORACLE, Servlet,WAMP

1. INTRODUCTION

Online voting system facilities users to vote in differentlanguages. Users can commit their votes by selecting theirunderstandable language to commit vote. This will makevoting easy for people from different regions. User cancommit votes from rural areas by Televoting. Televoting,telephone voting or phone voting is a method of decisionmaking and opinion polling conducted by telephone.Televoting can also extend to voting by SMS text messagevia a mobile cell phone. Televoting involves broadcastersproviding an audience with different telephone numbersassociated with contestants participating; the outcome isdecided by the number of calls to each line. The results oftelevoting will be accessed in database. Absentee votingrefers to registered voters who cannot make it to the pollson Election Day because of occupation, business, studies,travel, imprisonment (other than a convicted felon), illness,disability and hospitalization or resident in a long termcare facility, may vote by absentee ballot. This voting canbe committed through E-mails.

1.1 Problem StatementsIn recent scenario online voting doesnt provide differentregional languages for the voters (users/candidate) due to

which they wont be able to vote easily. In rural areas alsodont have facilities to commit their votes and there is lackof awareness about elections. Absentee voting technique isalso not present.

1.2 Research ObjectiveThe main objective of this study is to add thefunctionalities to the current online voting system such as:

1. Different regional languages.2. Televoting Support.3. Absentee voting.

Such a framework will allow us to evaluate as well ascompare the merits of existing and future online votingschemes. System should support multi-user environment.System should be fully automated. System should provideconcrete security features like creating users and assigningprivileges to users of the system. System should be capableto keep track of all the detailed descriptions of the clientand the whole details of services offered by the clientorganization. Various outputs (reports) should be availableonline any time. System should be able to handle externallarge volumes of data (i.e. large database support). [1]

2. SCOPE OF STUDY

The scope of the project is that it will use the ID andpassword created by user to register him/her in the votingsite, through this all the details of voter are saved indatabase. And it will act as the main security to the votessystem. [1]Advanced Technology: It is an advanced technology usednow a day. It increases the voting rates throughTelevoting (through speech via telephone/sms), Absenteevoting and by providing different regional languagesoptions through.

Internet: It is an online facility and hence very useful forthe users. Voters can vote from anywhere at any time inIndia [1].

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E-Mails: Absentee can vote through email. (An absenteevoting is defined as when the vote is cast by someone whois unable or unwilling to attend the official polling station).E-SMS/Cell-Phone: Televoting, telephone voting orphone voting is a method of decision making and opinionpolling conducted via telephone or E-SMS. People whohave not internet connection they cannot check the emailsor not have email they can be informed by SMS on theirmobile.

3. LITERATURE REVIEW

3.1. BackgroundThis system is being developed for use by everyone with asimple and self explanatory GUI. This is software that canbe used by people to vote in an election. All the user mustdo login according to their regional languages and click onhis favorable candidates to register his vote. Thedevelopment and testing is done on Ethernet. While onlinevoting system has been an active area of research in recentyears, the use of insecure Internet, well documented casesof incorrect implementations reported recently. Thesechallenges are to be resolved so that public should casttheir vote in secure and convenient way. People can casttheir votes efficiently, faster and also maintainconfidentiality at the same time. Proposed online votingsystem is a system by which any Voter can use his/hervoting rights from anywhere in country. Online votingsystem contains.

a) Voters Names with ID and password.b) Voters information in database.c) Voters language information.d) Voters e-mail address.e) Voters telephone number.f) Voters vote in a database.g) Calculation of total number of votes.

Various operational works proposed in the system are:

Recording information of the voter in database. checkingof information filled by voter. Discard the falseinformation. Each information is sent to electioncommission.[1]

3.2 Product PerspectiveThe product is an election conducting tool with a simpleGUI. The product is developed using Java. Thoughproduct is stand-alone. It requires Java Virtual Machine(JVM). [1]

3.3 User CharacteristicsUsers are considered to be technically novices butexpected to be able to use a computer / hand held terminal(HHT). and to click against the favorable candidate on theGUI. [1]

3.4 Product FunctionsThe product has a server back-end which takes care ofauthenticating the users and maintaining necessary datastructures. The GUI at the server's end enables creating thepolls on behalf of the client. The users must connect to theserver to authenticate their identification against thepassword and then vote using the GUI at their end. [1]

3.5 Overview of Data RequirementsThe internal memory requirement will be constant orlinearly dependent on the number of users depending onthe provision of changing the vote at a later time. In such acase the actions will be stored in a data structure whichwill be referred to when needed. The external data aboutthe candidates (with photographs) and the posts or the pollquestions and the answers will be given as input only atthe server end. [1]

3.6 .Assumptions and DependenciesThe user is assumed to have JVM on his systemirrespective of its hardware and software configuration.The other requirements are strongly design based and canbe only made concrete in the design stage. We also assumethat all the clients running this software are not blocked byfirewalls, proxies, etc[1]

3.7. ConstraintsGUI is only in English. Login and password is used foridentification of Voter.[1]

4. SALIENT FEATURE

On-line voting system is a software system through whicha voter can give votes through registering themselves onthe voting website. All the information in sites which hasbeen entered are stored in database .For each page in thewebsite have its own database table. Each voter has toenter his all basic information like name, sex, religion,nationality, criminal record e.t.c. This is the first page ofthe website known as the welcome page. It has all the pageoptions likeHome, Polling Dates, Register, Login, about us, Contactus, FAQs. [1] Register, Login, about us, Contact us, FAQs.

4.1 Home

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Figure 1: Home [1]

It is the welcome page of the website, having all thefeature options of the website.

4.2 RegistrationThis is the register page, where the voter, candidate andelection commission officer can register themselves. Theyall have to enter basic information best of their known .Allthe information registered in the website are saved in therespective database .The Election Commission officer hasauthority to accept eligible user and suitable candidate,otherwise he/she has right to reject their registration. [1]

Figure 2: Registration [1]

4.3 Login

User Login. After registering into the website, thisinformation is saved to the database and sent to theelection commission. The user can Login to the websitewith his unique USERNAME and PASSWORD generatedthrough registration. There is a option for FORGOTPASSWORD, in case user forget his password then he/shecan go with option of forgot password. [1]

Candidate Login. After registration candidate can seehis/her profile and can edit his/her profile. The candidatehas facilitated with all the latest news update regardingelection.[1]

Election commission officer login: After login electionCommission officer will verify whether user and candidateis authentic or not.[1]

Figure 3: Login [1]

Figure 4: Choice of candidates for voting [1]

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Televoting System . A televoting device is specially meantfor a televoting system, in which a large number ofsubscribers can connect to a telecommunications networkand are able to make a call to a subscriber number, hereinreferred to as televoting number, of a televoting processorwhich is also connected to the said network in order totransmit their vote to said televoting processing,

(1)Firstly it will be connected to a telecommunicationsnetwork.(2)Then they are able to make a call to a subscribernumber, referred to as televoting number of a televotingprocessor.(3) It provides a way to transmit their vote to saidprocessor.

Figure : 6 Process of Televoting

Figure: 7 Televoting Networks [1]

Absentee Voting .Absentee voting is a voting methodwhere the person who is unable to visit the voting boothdue to any problem can commit their votes throughAbsentee Voting. This system involves voting on a dayearlier than the actual Election Day so that the candidatewho were absent at the time of actual election date canvote through absentee voting.

Figure: 8 Absentee Voting

4. RESOURCES

We develop this software application with followingresources

Front end: - JAVA (JSP, Servlet, JDBC, Java mail,EJB2.0)Back end: - ORACLE/MYSQLDesign: - HTML CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)Validation: - JavaScriptPlatform: - J2EE [1]

Figure: 9 Communication Interfaces

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Communication of information is possible through thededicated network to the server in which database ispresent. Interface server acts as a medium between thenetwork and the database..

V. CONCLUSION

The functionalities to the current online voting systemsuch as different regional languages, Televoting Support,Absentee voting is achieved which will increase the votingrates in different regions of country. This system is highlyreliable and secured in order of their operation. It is userfriendly and easy to handle if person dont have technicalknowledge and skills .This system have an excellentmechanism that doesnt require geographical proximity ofthe voters.

6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is not possible to prepare a project report without theassistance & encouragement of other people. This one iscertainly no exception. On the very outset of this report, Iwould like to extend my sincere & heartfelt obligationtowards all the personages who have helped me in thisendeavor. Without their active guidance, help, cooperation& encouragement, I would not have made headway in theproject.

First of all I am thankful to C-DAC for giving me thisopportunity. I am extremely thankful and pay my gratitudeto Ms. Mary Jacintha (HOD: SCHOOL OFMANAGEMENT) and all faculties of School OfManagement for his valuable guidance and support oncompletion of this project.

I also acknowledge with a deep sense of reverence, mygratitude towards my parents and member of my family,who has always supported me morally as well aseconomically.

At last but not least gratitude goes to all of my friends whodirectly or indirectly helped me to complete this projectreport.

Any omission in this brief acknowledgement does notmean lack of gratitude.

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