SEMINAR REPORT

ON
E-VOTING TECHNOLOGY
A SEMINAR REPORT

Submitted by

DEEPAK KUMAR
(ROLL. No: 1228210004)

in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

of

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
in
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
under the faculty of

JP INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING &TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

JP INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

APRIL 2015
 BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

Certified that this seminar report titled, “E-VOTING TECHNOLOGY

(online voting system)” is a bona-fide record of work done by DEEPAK

KUMAR (Roll No: 1228210004), under my supervision, in partial fulfillment

for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

and Engineering. Certified further, that to the best of my knowledge the work

reported herein does not form part or full of any other thesis or dissertation on

the basis of which a degree or award was conferred on an earlier occasion to

this or any other candidate.

(SIGNATURE) (SIGNATURE)

Dr .SANJEEV KUMAR SHARMA  Ms. Thendral

PROFESSOR AND HEAD  Ms. Rashmi

Department of Computer Technology  Mr. Ahhishek

UPTU University, JPIET Meerut Department of Computer Technology

UPTU University, JPIET Meerut
 ABSTRACT

The first part of this chapter includes the complete list of functional and non-
functional requirements for an electronic voting system, taking into account the
European Union legislation, the organizational details of currently applicable voting
procedures and the possibilities offered, as well as the constraints imposed, by the
latest technology. Following that, there is a detailed presentation of several generic
and enhanced models, proposed in the cryptographic and enhanced models, proposed
in the cryptographic literature, for remote e- voting as well as of a new class of
cryptographic voting schemes for paper-based elections in polling stations .
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am highly indebted to our respectable Head of the Department Dr.

SANJEEV KUMAR SHARMA , Department of Computer Technology, JPIET,

UPTU University for providing us with sufficient facilities that contributed to the

success in this endeavor.

I would like to express my sincere thanks and deep sense of gratitude to my

Supervisor Ms Rashmi , Ms Thendral and Mr Abhishek sir Department of

Computer Technology, JPIET, UPTU University for her valuable guidance,

suggestions and constant encouragement which paved way for the successful

completion of this seminar report work.

I would be failing in my duty, if I forget to thank all the teaching and non-

teaching staff of my department, for their constant support throughout the course of

seminar report work.

DEEPAK KUMAR
(1228210004)
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE

ABSTRACT 3

1 INTRODUCTION to online voting system 7

1.1 Background of Study 7-8
1.2 Significance of Study 9
1.3 OBJECTIOVE OF online voting 9
1.4 Justification 10

2 SCOPE OF STUDY 10
2.1 OLD Methods of voting 11
2.2 General Requirements 12

3 PROBLEM with Existing voting Registration system 13

3.1 SOFTWARE REQUIRMENT 13-14
3.2 FRONT –END & BACK-END 15-16
3.3 DATA FLOW DIGRAM 16
CHAPTER TITLE PAGE

4 DATABASE Architecture 17

5 DATABASE TABLE 17
18

6 CONCLUSION 19
REFERENCES 19
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 CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM

“ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM” is an online voting technique. In this system

people who have citizenship of Kenya and whose age is above 18 years of age and any
sex can give his\her vote online without going to any physical polling station. There is
a database which is maintained in which all the names of voters with complete
information is stored.
In “ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM” a voter can use his\her voting right online
without any difficulty. He\She has to be registered first for him/her to vote.
Registration is mainly done by the system administrator for security reasons. The
system Administrator registers the voters on a special site of the system visited by him
only by simply filling a registration form to register voter. Citizens seeking
registration are expected to contact the system administrator to submit their details.
After the validity of them being citizens of India has been confirmed by the system
administrator by comparing their details submitted with those in existing databases
such as those as the Registrar of Persons, the citizen is then registered as a voter.
After registration, the voter is assigned a secret Voter ID with which he/she can
use to log into the system and enjoy services provided by the system such as voting. If
invalid/wrong details are submitted, then the citizen is not registered to vote.

(1.1) BACKGROUND OF STUDY

The Online voting system (OVS) also known as e-voting is a term

encompassing several different types of voting embracing both electronic means of
counting votes. Electronic voting technology can include punched cards, optical scan
voting systems and specialized voting kiosks (including self contained direct-
recording electronic voting systems or DRE). It can also involve transmission of
ballots and votes via telephones, private computer networks, or the internet.
 Online voting is an electronic way of choosing leaders via a web driven
application. The advantage of online voting over the common “queue method” is that
the voters have the choice of voting at their own free time and there is reduced
congestion. It also minimizes on errors of vote counting. The individual votes are
submitted in a database which can be queried to find out who of the aspirants for a
given post has the highest number of votes.

This system is geared towards increasing the voting percentage in Kenya since
it has been noted that with the old voting method {the Queue System}, the voter
turnout has been a wanting case. With system in place also, if high security is applied,
cases of false votes shall be reduced.

With the “ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM”, a voter can use his\her voting right
online without any difficulty. He\She has to register as a voter first before being
authorized to vote. The registration should be done prior to the voting date to enable
data update in the database.

However, not just anybody can vote. For one to participate in the elections,
he/she must have the requirements. For instance, he/she must be a registered citizen
i.e. must be 18 and above years old. As already stated, the project ‘Online Voting'
provides means for fast and convenient voting and access to this system is limited
only to registered voters.
Internet voting systems are appealing for several reasons which include; People are
getting more used to work with computers to do all sorts of things, namely sensitive
operations such as shopping and home banking and they allow people tovote far from
where they usually live, helping to reduce absenteeism rate.
(1.2) SIGNIFICANCEOF STUDY

The main purposes of OVS include:

 Provision of improved voting services to the voters through fast, timely and
convenient voting.

 Reduction of the costs incurred by the Kenyan Electoral Commission during

voting time in paying the very many clerks employed for the sake of the
success of the manual system.

 Check to ensure that the members who are registered are the only ones to vote.
Cases of “Dead People” voting are also minimized.

 Online voting system (OVS) will require being very precise or cost cutting to
produce an effective election management system.

 Therefore crucial points that this (OVS) emphasizes on are listed below.

i. Require less number of staff during the election.

ii. This system is a lot easier to independently moderate the elections and
subsequently reinforce its transparency and fairness.

iii. Less capital, less effort, and less labor intensive, as the primary cost and
effort will focus primarily on creating, managing, and running a secure
online portal.

iv. Increased number of voters as individual will find it easier and more
convenient to vote, especially those abroad.

(1.3) Objectives Of The online voting

The specific objectives of the project include:

 Reviewing the existing/current voting process or approach in Kenya;

 Coming up with an automated voting system in Kenya;

 Implementing a an automated/online voting system;

 Validating the system to ensure that only legible voters are allowed to vote.
(1.4) Justification

The ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM-INDIA shall reduce the time

spend making long queues at the polling stations during voting. It shall
also enable the voters to vote from any part of the globe as explained
since this is an online application available on the internet. Cases of vote
miscounts shall also be solved since at the backend of this system resides
a well developed database using MYSQL that can provide the correct
data once it’s correctly queried. Since the voting process shall be open as
early as possible, the voters shall have ample time to decide when and
whom to vote for

.
(2) SCOPE OF STUDY

It is focused on studying the existing system of voting in Kenya

and to make sure that the peoples vote is counts, for fairness in the
elective positions. This is also will produce:
 Less effort and less labor intensive, as the primary cost and focus
primary on creating, managing, and running a secure web voting portal.

 Increasing number of voters as individuals will find it easier and more

convenient to vote, especially those abroad.

(2.1) Old Methods Of Voting

1. Paper-based voting: The voter gets a blank ballot and use a pen or a
marker to indicate he want to vote for which candidate. Hand-counted
ballots is a time and labor consuming process, but it is easy to manufacture
paper ballots and the ballots can be retained for verifying, this type is still
the most common way to vote.
 2. Lever voting machine: Lever machine is peculiar equipment, and each
lever is assigned for a corresponding candidate. The voter pulls the lever to
poll for his favorite candidate. This kind of voting machine can count up
the ballots automatically. Because its interface is not user-friendly enough,
giving some training to voters is necessary.

3. Direct recording electronic voting machine: This type, which is

abbreviated to DRE, integrates with keyboard; touch screen, or buttons for
the voter press to poll. Some of them lay in voting records and counting the
votes is very quickly. But the other DRE without keep voting records are
doubted about its accuracy.

4. Punch card: The voter uses metallic hole-punch to punch a hole on the
blank ballot. It can count votes automatically, but if the voter’s perforation
is incomplete, the result is probably determined wrongfully.

5. Optical voting machine: After each voter fills a circle correspond to their
favorite candidate on the blank ballot, this machine selects the darkest mark
on each ballot for the vote then computes the total result. This kind of
machine counts up ballots rapidly. However, if the voter fills over the
circle, it will lead to the error result of optical-scan.

Recent years, a considerable number of countries has adopted E-voting for their
official elections. These countries include; America, Belgium, Japan and Brazil.

SECURITY ISSUES OF ONLINE VOTING

Foreign experience revealed that they are often confronted by security
issues while the online voting system is running. The origin of the security
issues was due to not only outsider (such as voters and attackers) but also
insider (such as system developers and administrators), even just because the
inheritance of some objects in the source code are unsuitable. These errors
caused the voting system to crash.
The proposed solutions were correspondingly outlined to hold back these
attacks. For example, to avoid hacker making incursion into the voting system
via network, we can design our system to transmit data without network.
Another example is to limit voter to input particular data, so that we can
prevent the command injection from running

(2.2) General Requirements:

1) Registration of the voter is done by ELECTION COMMISION OF INDIA.

2) ELECTION COMMISION OF INDIA can change the information any time

if required.

3) Registration of the Voter depends upon the information filled by the user.

4) Voter is given a unique ID and PASSWORD.

5) In the DATABASE information of every voter is stored.

6) Database shows the information of every user

(3) Problems with the Existing Voter Registration System

The problems of the existing manual system of voting include among others the
following:
1. Expensive and Time consuming: The process of collecting data and entering
this data into the database takes too much time and is expensive to conduct, for
example, time and money is spent in printing data capture forms, in preparing
registration stations together with human resources, and there after advertising
the days set for registration process including sensitizing voters on the need for
registration, as well as time spent on entering this data to the database.

2. Too much paper work: The process involves too much paper work and paper
storage which is difficult as papers become bulky with the population size.

3. Errors during data entry: Errors are part of all human beings; it is very
unlikely for humans to be 100 percent efficient in data entry.

4. Loss of registration forms: Some times, registration forms get lost after being
filled in with voters’ details, in most cases these are difficult to follow-up and
therefore many remain unregistered even though they are voting age nationals
and interested in exercising their right to vote.

5. Short time provided to view the voter register: This is a very big problem
since not all people have free time during the given short period of time to
check and update the voter register.

6. Above all, a number of voters end up being locked out from voting.

(3.1) SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

i. MYSQL DBMS-It allows combination, extraction, manipulation and

organization of data in the voters’ database. It is platform independent and
therefore can be implemented and used across several such as Windows, Linux
server and is compatible with various hardware mainframes. It is fast in
performance, stable and provides business value at a low cost.

ii. NetBeans IDE 7.1.2-The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated

development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris.
The NetBeans project consists of an open-source IDE and an application
platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and
mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as PHP, JavaScript and
Ajax, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++.
 The NetBeans project is supported by a vibrant developer community and
offers extensive documentation and training resources as well as a diverse
selection of third-party plugins.
iii. JAVA coding-This is for advanced user who find PHP codes easy to work
with.

iv. Testing-is done via WAMPSERVER.

v. Web browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Google chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer

vi. Reporting Tool i.e. through Data Report.

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

 Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7

Professional:

 Processor: 800MHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent

 Memory: 512 MB

 Disk space: 750 MB of free disk space

 Ubuntu 9.10:

 Processor: 800MHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent

 Memory: 512 MB

 Disk space: 650 MB of free disk space

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(3.2) FRONT –END AND BACK-END

In their most general meanings, the terms front end and back end refer to the
initial and the end stages of a process flow. In software design, the front-end is the
part of a software system that deals with the user, and the back-end is the part that
processes the input from the front-end. The separation of software systems into "front
ends" and "back ends" is a kind of abstraction that helps to keep different parts of the
system separated. The general idea is that the front-end is responsible for collecting
input from the user, which can be in a variety of forms, and processing it in such a
way that it conforms to a specification that the back-end can use. The connection of
the front-end to the back-end is a kind of interface.
Front-end and back-end are terms used to characterize program interfaces and
services relative to the initial user of these interfaces and services. ( The "user" may be
a human being or a program.) A ”front-end”application is one that application users
interact with directly. A "back-end" application or program serves indirectly in
support of the front-end services, usually by being closer to the required resource or
having the capability to communicate with the required resource. The back-end
application may interact directly with the front-end or, perhaps more typically, is a
program called from an intermediate program that mediates front-end and back-end
activities. These terms acquire more special meanings in particular areas:-
(1) For software applications, front end is the same as user interface.
(2) In client/server applications, the client part of the program is often called
the front end and the server part is called the back end.
(3) Compilers, the programs that translate source code into object code, are
often composed of two parts: a front end and a back end. The front end is responsible
 for checking syntax and detecting errors, whereas the back end performs the actual
translation into object code.

(3.4) Data Flow Diagram:

Administrator Voter

Login
Login Process

voter data stored data voting data final

result

Voter Information Voting Final

Registration checking process Result

Election
Commissioner

Administrator
s
Election
Commissioner
(4) Architecture:
One Tier
Architecture :

When automation first hit business, it was in the form of a huge "Mainframe"
computer. Here, a central computer served the whole business community and was
accessed via dumb terminals. All processing took place on a single computer - and
therefore in one place. All resources associated with the computer (tape and disk
drives, printersetc.) were attached to this same computer. This is single tier (or 1 -tier)
computing. It is simple, efficient,uncomplicated, but terribly expensive to run.
All users run their programs from a single machine. The ease with which
deployment and even development occurs makes this model very attractive. The cost
of the central machine makes this architecture prohibitive for most companies,
especially as system costs and return on investment (ROI) are looked at carefully
nowadays.

(5) Data Base Tables:-

This project uses many tables:

Admin
Voter

Candidate
 Admin Table:-

Field Name Data Type Description

Username Varchar Login id for Admin.(Primary key)

Password Varchar Password for Login

Voter Table:-

Field Name Data Type Description

VoterId Integer Login id for Voter(Primary key)

Name Varchar Name of the voter
Sex Varchar Sex of voter
Age Integer Age of voter
City Varchar City of voter
Security Varchar Security Question
Status Boolean Status of voter(he/she can vote or not)

Candidate Table:-

Field Name Data Type Description

Symbol Varchar Party Symbol (Primary key)

Name Varchar Name of the voter
Sex Varchar Sex of voter

(6) CONCLUSION

This Online Voting system will manage the Voter’s information by which voter
can login and use his voting rights. The system will incorporate all features of Voting
system. It provides the tools for maintaining voter’s vote to every party and it count
total no. of votes of every party. There is a DATABASE which is maintained by the
ELECTION COMMISION OF INDIA in which all the names of voter with complete
information is stored.
In this user who is above 18 year’s register his/her information on the database
and when he/she want to vote he/she has to login by his id and password and can vote
to any party only single time. Voting detail store in database and the result is
displayed by calculation. By online voting system percentage of voting is increases. It
decreases the cost and time of voting process. It is very easy to use and It is vary less
time consuming. It is very easy to debug.
REFERENCE

 VIA INTERNET
 VIA TEXT BOOK
 VIA NEWSPAPER

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