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PROJECT REPORT ON

PROJECT REPORT

ON

ONLINE

VOTING SYSTEM

SUBMITTED TO: Pawan Kumar SUBMITTED BY:-Nitin Bhasin

DEFINITION OF TERMS

OVS - Online Voting System

Index

 Abstract

 Introduction To Online Voting System

 Background Of Study

 Significance Of Study

 Objective of Project

 Project Justification

 Scope of Study

 Old Methods Of Voting

 Security Issues Of Online Voting

 General Requirements

 Problems with Existing Voting Registration System

 Software and Hardware Required

 Front-End & Back-End

 Data Flow Diagram

 ER Diagram

 Database Architecture

 Database Tables

 Database Queries

 Conclusion

 Appendix(Snapshots)

ABSTRACT

The word “vote” means to choose from a list, to elect or to determine. The main

goal of voting (in a scenario involving the citizens of a given country) is to come up

with leaders of the people’s choice.

Most countries, Kenya not an exception have problems when it comes to voting.

Some of the problems involved include ridging votes during election, insecure or

inaccessible polling stations, inadequate polling materials and also inexperienced

personnel.

voting. If invalid/wrong details are submitted, then the citizen is not registered to

vote.

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 to

vote far from where they usually live, helping to reduce absenteeism rate.

SIGNIFICANCE OF 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.

 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.

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

Requirements:

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

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

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

(BLOCK DIAGRAM)

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

voter data stored data voting data final result

ER Diagram:

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Election

Commissioner

Election

Commissioner

Voter Candidates Registration

Process

Registered Voter Database Registered Candidate

Voting

ADMIN

Add Candidates

Update Candidate

DetailsDelete Candidate

Add Voters

Update Voter

Details

Check Results

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

Age Integer Age of voter

City Varchar City of voter

Count Integer Count the no of votes