This document discusses electronic voting systems and provides background information on voting in Nigeria. It begins by defining electronic voting and describing different types of electronic voting technologies. It then provides details on Nigeria's existing voting system, including that Nigeria elects a president and national assembly. It has over 2000 elective positions across the federal, state and local levels. The document discusses the significance and objectives of studying electronic voting systems for Nigeria, which include improving accessibility, transparency and reducing errors and fraud. It provides definitions for key terms and outlines the scope and limitations of the study.
This document outlines an online voting system project that aims to address issues with existing voting systems. It includes sections on the objectives, abstract, introduction, existing systems and their drawbacks, proposed system and advantages, requirements specification including hardware and software, modules, system design including diagrams, coding, testing, screenshots, future enhancements, and conclusions. The project maintains administrator and voter user levels and allows voters to cast their votes online from anywhere in the country. It seeks to make the voting process less expensive, time-consuming, and paper-intensive compared to traditional methods.
The document describes an online voting system developed by the State Election Commission of Gujarat, India. The key objectives of the online voting system (OVS) are to authenticate voters, ensure the integrity and non-traceability of votes cast, and maintain the reliability and availability of the voting system while minimizing costs for the government. The system allows voters to cast their votes online from their homes or e-polling booths using a computer with internet connectivity and required software. It involves a three step process of online registration, account activation, and online voting on the election day by logging in and selecting candidates on the ballot paper.
The republic of Kenya comprises of eight (8) provinces now forty-seven counties. The country is located in East Africa and shares land borders with the Republics of Somalia in the East, Uganda in the West, Tanzania in the South and Ethiopia and Sudan (now South Sudan) in the North. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Kenya are the kikuyu, Luhya, and Kalenjins. In terms of religion Kenya is roughly split into 80% Christians while the rest are Muslims.
In Kenya, general elections are carried out every after five years where a head of state the President and The National Assembly representatives are elected. They are elected by the people. The national Assembly has about 220 members representing respective constituencies.
In the Local Governments they have the chairman and the Counselor. The counselors are all elected by the people of the state in the respective wards.
That is to say, in any given general elections, Kenyans vote for the president, the members of the National Assembly and the counselors.
Most African Electoral bodies IEBC not an exception right from their inception to date, even with latest advancements in technology, still use a primitive paper based methods during voting; this system is characterized by manual form filling to chose leaders and transfer of the information from manual data capture forms to computerized datasheets, this has led to an excessive number of mistakes making their way into the final vote counts hence leading to confusion at the time of announcing the results. The main advantage of paper-based systems is that ballot papers are easily human auditable. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages for instance the need to print ballot papers is a slow, expensive, inflexible, environmentally hostile process, visual impairments, or literacy limitations and also last minute changes to the voter register are difficult to accommodate among others.
This document provides an overview of an online voting system. It discusses how the system allows students at an institute to vote online with a valid student ID. Voters must first register with the system administrator who verifies their identity in existing databases. After registration, voters are assigned a voter ID to log in and vote. The document then discusses security issues with online voting and requirements for the proposed system, which aims to reduce costs and lines at polling stations while increasing voter turnout.
This document is a seminar report on e-voting technology submitted by Deepak Kumar to partially fulfill requirements for a Bachelor of Engineering degree. The report covers requirements and models for remote e-voting systems as well as new cryptographic voting schemes for polling stations. It includes sections on introduction, scope of study, existing voting methods, requirements, database design, and conclusions. The report evaluates technologies that could automate and improve the voting process in India.
The document appears to be a project report for developing an online voting system for college elections. It includes sections on introduction, requirements analysis, project management, design, testing, and references. The introduction describes the problem of low voter turnout in traditional voting and proposes an online system to allow students to vote from anywhere. The requirements analysis section includes data flow diagrams and a data dictionary. The project management section estimates the project scope in function points, effort in person-months, and schedule. It also includes a risk table.
This document provides a project report on developing an online voting system in India. It discusses the background and need for an online voting system to address issues with the current in-person voting method. The objectives are to review the existing voting process, develop an automated online voting system, and validate the system to ensure only eligible voters can vote. Security is a key concern, as the system must prevent unauthorized access and ensure accurate vote counting.
This document outlines a project to develop an online voting system with a centralized database and web interface. The team includes Mrs. K. Raja rajaeswari as the team guide and members S.Sethuraman, G.Abdul Ravuf, and K.Ravichandiran. The system aims to allow people to cast votes online in order to save time and reduce workload compared to traditional in-person voting. It also provides security and prevents false voting. The project will build a website for online voting and maintain the database. It provides several advantages like time savings, reduced workload, secure storage of voting data, and allowing remote voters like NRIs to vote.
This document outlines an online voting system project that aims to address issues with existing voting systems. It includes sections on the objectives, abstract, introduction, existing systems and their drawbacks, proposed system and advantages, requirements specification including hardware and software, modules, system design including diagrams, coding, testing, screenshots, future enhancements, and conclusions. The project maintains administrator and voter user levels and allows voters to cast their votes online from anywhere in the country. It seeks to make the voting process less expensive, time-consuming, and paper-intensive compared to traditional methods.
The document describes an online voting system developed by the State Election Commission of Gujarat, India. The key objectives of the online voting system (OVS) are to authenticate voters, ensure the integrity and non-traceability of votes cast, and maintain the reliability and availability of the voting system while minimizing costs for the government. The system allows voters to cast their votes online from their homes or e-polling booths using a computer with internet connectivity and required software. It involves a three step process of online registration, account activation, and online voting on the election day by logging in and selecting candidates on the ballot paper.
The republic of Kenya comprises of eight (8) provinces now forty-seven counties. The country is located in East Africa and shares land borders with the Republics of Somalia in the East, Uganda in the West, Tanzania in the South and Ethiopia and Sudan (now South Sudan) in the North. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Kenya are the kikuyu, Luhya, and Kalenjins. In terms of religion Kenya is roughly split into 80% Christians while the rest are Muslims.
In Kenya, general elections are carried out every after five years where a head of state the President and The National Assembly representatives are elected. They are elected by the people. The national Assembly has about 220 members representing respective constituencies.
In the Local Governments they have the chairman and the Counselor. The counselors are all elected by the people of the state in the respective wards.
That is to say, in any given general elections, Kenyans vote for the president, the members of the National Assembly and the counselors.
Most African Electoral bodies IEBC not an exception right from their inception to date, even with latest advancements in technology, still use a primitive paper based methods during voting; this system is characterized by manual form filling to chose leaders and transfer of the information from manual data capture forms to computerized datasheets, this has led to an excessive number of mistakes making their way into the final vote counts hence leading to confusion at the time of announcing the results. The main advantage of paper-based systems is that ballot papers are easily human auditable. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages for instance the need to print ballot papers is a slow, expensive, inflexible, environmentally hostile process, visual impairments, or literacy limitations and also last minute changes to the voter register are difficult to accommodate among others.
This document provides an overview of an online voting system. It discusses how the system allows students at an institute to vote online with a valid student ID. Voters must first register with the system administrator who verifies their identity in existing databases. After registration, voters are assigned a voter ID to log in and vote. The document then discusses security issues with online voting and requirements for the proposed system, which aims to reduce costs and lines at polling stations while increasing voter turnout.
This document is a seminar report on e-voting technology submitted by Deepak Kumar to partially fulfill requirements for a Bachelor of Engineering degree. The report covers requirements and models for remote e-voting systems as well as new cryptographic voting schemes for polling stations. It includes sections on introduction, scope of study, existing voting methods, requirements, database design, and conclusions. The report evaluates technologies that could automate and improve the voting process in India.
The document appears to be a project report for developing an online voting system for college elections. It includes sections on introduction, requirements analysis, project management, design, testing, and references. The introduction describes the problem of low voter turnout in traditional voting and proposes an online system to allow students to vote from anywhere. The requirements analysis section includes data flow diagrams and a data dictionary. The project management section estimates the project scope in function points, effort in person-months, and schedule. It also includes a risk table.
This document provides a project report on developing an online voting system in India. It discusses the background and need for an online voting system to address issues with the current in-person voting method. The objectives are to review the existing voting process, develop an automated online voting system, and validate the system to ensure only eligible voters can vote. Security is a key concern, as the system must prevent unauthorized access and ensure accurate vote counting.
This document outlines a project to develop an online voting system with a centralized database and web interface. The team includes Mrs. K. Raja rajaeswari as the team guide and members S.Sethuraman, G.Abdul Ravuf, and K.Ravichandiran. The system aims to allow people to cast votes online in order to save time and reduce workload compared to traditional in-person voting. It also provides security and prevents false voting. The project will build a website for online voting and maintain the database. It provides several advantages like time savings, reduced workload, secure storage of voting data, and allowing remote voters like NRIs to vote.
The document describes an online voting system called Ova that consists of four user groups: general voters, candidates, inspectors, and administrators. It discusses requirements for an e-voting system such as voter eligibility verification, uniqueness of votes, accuracy of vote tallying, and verifiability of results. The proposed secure e-voting system architecture has three layers - a user interface layer, application logic layer, and database layer. The e-voting process allows mobile/web voting and has advantages such as speed, lower cost, convenience and security.
The document describes an online voting system project presented by Jain Pooja. It includes an introduction describing how voters can register and vote online, proposed system details with administrator and voter user levels, module descriptions including login, viewing voter details, adding voters, polling, and report generation. It also includes database tables for administrators, voters, and candidates with field descriptions, and screenshots of the admin and voter registration pages.
This document outlines an online voting system project, including its goals to provide an accurate, reliable and redundant-free system for immediate storage of voting information that is easy to operate. It lists topics like the abstract, software and hardware requirements, working overview, user characteristics, advantages and modules. Screenshots are also included of forms for registration, polling, candidate information and results. The conclusion restates the goals of the proposed online voting system.
This document provides an overview of an online voting system project. It discusses the required resources including PHP for development, MySQL for the database, and WAMP server. It describes the system allowing Indian citizens over 18 to vote online through a secure registration and login process. The system aims to increase voter turnout and reduce false votes. It provides technical details on the system functionality, user roles, and data storage and management. A feasibility analysis covers the technical, economic, operational and schedule feasibility of the proposed online voting system project.
A mobile(Android app ) based election app. A website or app that will help in smart election system. It can be used by the government,and in every sector when election is a major issue.
This document presents an online voting system project. It includes an introduction to the system, proposed system details, software requirements, module descriptions, database tables, and screenshots of the login and home pages. The key points are:
- The online voting system allows Indian citizens over 18 to vote from anywhere without going to a polling station.
- It has administrator and voter levels, and facilitates voter identification, online voting management, and providing voter information to the Election Commission of India.
- It uses MySQL, PHP, and browsers like Firefox and Chrome. Modules include sign in, voter details, sign up, polling, and report generation.
- It has tables for administrators, voters, and candidates with fields like
This document outlines a project proposal for an online voting system. It includes sections on acknowledgements, objectives, features, technical requirements, advantages over traditional methods, entity relationship and UML diagrams, and screenshots. The objectives are to create a web-based voting application with four user groups: general voters, candidates, administrators. Key features include secure login, viewing candidate profiles, casting authenticated votes, and reporting suspected users. It will use Java technologies and be deployed on Apache Tomcat.
This document describes an advanced online voting system that allows voters to cast ballots in multiple languages, through televoting using phones or SMS, and absentee voting via email. The system aims to make voting more accessible and convenient. It stores voter data in a database and ensures privacy and security. Key features include supporting various regional languages, televoting to reach rural areas, and absentee voting for those unable to vote in person. The system was developed using technologies like Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and databases like MySQL and Oracle. It aims to evaluate existing and future online voting schemes to improve accessibility and participation.
This document discusses e-voting systems and compares traditional and electronic voting methods. It outlines the types of e-voting systems, including punch-card, optical scan, and direct-recording electronic voting machines. The document also describes the e-voting process and the required hardware and software, including operating systems, web technologies, databases, and minimum hardware specifications. Finally, it lists some advantages of e-voting, such as ease of use and instant results, and disadvantages, such as high costs and potential security issues.
This document discusses online voting systems and e-voting. It describes different types of voting systems including paper-based, DRE, and internet voting. It outlines the objectives of e-voting including authenticating voters, maintaining ballot integrity, and ensuring system availability. Both advantages like convenience and faster results, and disadvantages like security issues are discussed. The document then describes how e-voting has been implemented in elections in several countries. It provides details about Gujarat's implementation of e-voting including costs, registration process, voting steps, and security algorithms used.
The document proposes an online voting system project that would allow eligible Pakistani citizens over 18 to vote online without going to physical polling stations. A group of two BSIT students, Ayesha Saeed and Iqra Azam, would develop the system over 2-3 months. It would have normal and election modes, encrypt voting data, and validate voters' eligibility. The system would specify registration and voting times, add candidates, and post election results on a website. It would need a web server with Java and cryptographic packages to securely transmit and store votes in a database.
E-voting technology provides an alternative to traditional paper-based voting through online and electronic means. It allows voters to cast ballots over the internet from any location. E-voting aims to provide instant results, make voting more convenient, and help increase voter turnout. However, some security and reliability concerns remain regarding online voting and ensuring the integrity of election results. Further encryption, verification methods, and testing of different e-voting systems is still needed.
www.electionproject.ajce.ind.in
online election managment system is for automate tasks of an election.
web application was developed using cakephp.
full report and code is available .
for more details contact chikkujoseph50@gmail.com
The document is a project report for an online voting system created by Nitin Bhasin in 2013 for NIIT. The report includes an introduction to the online voting system, background and significance of the study, objectives, requirements, and descriptions of the front-end and back-end architecture. It also includes diagrams of the database structure and tables. The report proposes an online system to address issues with existing voting methods in India and improve the voting process.
This document is a project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a diploma in information systems from Cairo University. The project aims to develop an electronic voting (e-voting) system to automate the voting process, help solve fraud problems, decrease voting time, and streamline the vote counting process. It provides background on documented problems with previous voting systems and outlines the objectives, scope, framework and requirements of the proposed e-voting system.
Online voting system full thesis project by jahirJahir Khan
“ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM” is an online voting technique. In this system people who have citizenship can 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.
Project synopsis on online voting systemLhakpa Yangji
This document provides a synopsis for an online voting system project. It describes the objectives of developing an online system to allow citizens over 18 to vote from home. It notes issues with current physical voting systems like long queues and aims to increase voter turnout with a convenient online option. The proposed system would require voters to register with ID and password in order to securely cast anonymous votes online. The project would develop the necessary software tools like a database, website, and security protocols to implement this vision of online democratic participation.
The document presents a secure electronic voting system. It discusses the objectives of providing a secure, simple and reliable e-voting system. It outlines the disadvantages of traditional paper-based voting. The architecture of the proposed secure e-voting system is then described, which uses a three-tier architecture with an interface layer, application logic layer and database layer. Key aspects include voter authentication using a zero-knowledge proof protocol, homomorphic encryption of votes, and tallying of votes without decryption. The document provides details of the various phases and requirements of the secure e-voting system.
This document describes a student project for an online voting system. It includes a declaration by the student that the work is their own, an approval from their supervisor, and dedications and acknowledgements. It also provides an abstract, definitions of terms, an executive summary and literature review on online voting systems and security issues. The methodology, system design, specifications, implementation, modules, testing and conclusions are described over 6 chapters. The project aims to address problems with existing voting systems and justify the need for an online system.
The document proposes a computerized voting system using barcodes to address problems with the current manual voting process for the Supreme Student Council at Marinduque State College. The system aims to streamline registration and counting of votes using barcodes scanned by each voter. It would allow viewing of candidate information and accept blank votes. Results and rankings could then be previewed through the new system. Some limitations are that new registrations require prior enrollment and the system cannot view vote counting or accept feedback posts.
The document describes an online voting system called Ova that consists of four user groups: general voters, candidates, inspectors, and administrators. It discusses requirements for an e-voting system such as voter eligibility verification, uniqueness of votes, accuracy of vote tallying, and verifiability of results. The proposed secure e-voting system architecture has three layers - a user interface layer, application logic layer, and database layer. The e-voting process allows mobile/web voting and has advantages such as speed, lower cost, convenience and security.
The document describes an online voting system project presented by Jain Pooja. It includes an introduction describing how voters can register and vote online, proposed system details with administrator and voter user levels, module descriptions including login, viewing voter details, adding voters, polling, and report generation. It also includes database tables for administrators, voters, and candidates with field descriptions, and screenshots of the admin and voter registration pages.
This document outlines an online voting system project, including its goals to provide an accurate, reliable and redundant-free system for immediate storage of voting information that is easy to operate. It lists topics like the abstract, software and hardware requirements, working overview, user characteristics, advantages and modules. Screenshots are also included of forms for registration, polling, candidate information and results. The conclusion restates the goals of the proposed online voting system.
This document provides an overview of an online voting system project. It discusses the required resources including PHP for development, MySQL for the database, and WAMP server. It describes the system allowing Indian citizens over 18 to vote online through a secure registration and login process. The system aims to increase voter turnout and reduce false votes. It provides technical details on the system functionality, user roles, and data storage and management. A feasibility analysis covers the technical, economic, operational and schedule feasibility of the proposed online voting system project.
A mobile(Android app ) based election app. A website or app that will help in smart election system. It can be used by the government,and in every sector when election is a major issue.
This document presents an online voting system project. It includes an introduction to the system, proposed system details, software requirements, module descriptions, database tables, and screenshots of the login and home pages. The key points are:
- The online voting system allows Indian citizens over 18 to vote from anywhere without going to a polling station.
- It has administrator and voter levels, and facilitates voter identification, online voting management, and providing voter information to the Election Commission of India.
- It uses MySQL, PHP, and browsers like Firefox and Chrome. Modules include sign in, voter details, sign up, polling, and report generation.
- It has tables for administrators, voters, and candidates with fields like
This document outlines a project proposal for an online voting system. It includes sections on acknowledgements, objectives, features, technical requirements, advantages over traditional methods, entity relationship and UML diagrams, and screenshots. The objectives are to create a web-based voting application with four user groups: general voters, candidates, administrators. Key features include secure login, viewing candidate profiles, casting authenticated votes, and reporting suspected users. It will use Java technologies and be deployed on Apache Tomcat.
This document describes an advanced online voting system that allows voters to cast ballots in multiple languages, through televoting using phones or SMS, and absentee voting via email. The system aims to make voting more accessible and convenient. It stores voter data in a database and ensures privacy and security. Key features include supporting various regional languages, televoting to reach rural areas, and absentee voting for those unable to vote in person. The system was developed using technologies like Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and databases like MySQL and Oracle. It aims to evaluate existing and future online voting schemes to improve accessibility and participation.
This document discusses e-voting systems and compares traditional and electronic voting methods. It outlines the types of e-voting systems, including punch-card, optical scan, and direct-recording electronic voting machines. The document also describes the e-voting process and the required hardware and software, including operating systems, web technologies, databases, and minimum hardware specifications. Finally, it lists some advantages of e-voting, such as ease of use and instant results, and disadvantages, such as high costs and potential security issues.
This document discusses online voting systems and e-voting. It describes different types of voting systems including paper-based, DRE, and internet voting. It outlines the objectives of e-voting including authenticating voters, maintaining ballot integrity, and ensuring system availability. Both advantages like convenience and faster results, and disadvantages like security issues are discussed. The document then describes how e-voting has been implemented in elections in several countries. It provides details about Gujarat's implementation of e-voting including costs, registration process, voting steps, and security algorithms used.
The document proposes an online voting system project that would allow eligible Pakistani citizens over 18 to vote online without going to physical polling stations. A group of two BSIT students, Ayesha Saeed and Iqra Azam, would develop the system over 2-3 months. It would have normal and election modes, encrypt voting data, and validate voters' eligibility. The system would specify registration and voting times, add candidates, and post election results on a website. It would need a web server with Java and cryptographic packages to securely transmit and store votes in a database.
E-voting technology provides an alternative to traditional paper-based voting through online and electronic means. It allows voters to cast ballots over the internet from any location. E-voting aims to provide instant results, make voting more convenient, and help increase voter turnout. However, some security and reliability concerns remain regarding online voting and ensuring the integrity of election results. Further encryption, verification methods, and testing of different e-voting systems is still needed.
www.electionproject.ajce.ind.in
online election managment system is for automate tasks of an election.
web application was developed using cakephp.
full report and code is available .
for more details contact chikkujoseph50@gmail.com
The document is a project report for an online voting system created by Nitin Bhasin in 2013 for NIIT. The report includes an introduction to the online voting system, background and significance of the study, objectives, requirements, and descriptions of the front-end and back-end architecture. It also includes diagrams of the database structure and tables. The report proposes an online system to address issues with existing voting methods in India and improve the voting process.
This document is a project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a diploma in information systems from Cairo University. The project aims to develop an electronic voting (e-voting) system to automate the voting process, help solve fraud problems, decrease voting time, and streamline the vote counting process. It provides background on documented problems with previous voting systems and outlines the objectives, scope, framework and requirements of the proposed e-voting system.
Online voting system full thesis project by jahirJahir Khan
“ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM” is an online voting technique. In this system people who have citizenship can 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.
Project synopsis on online voting systemLhakpa Yangji
This document provides a synopsis for an online voting system project. It describes the objectives of developing an online system to allow citizens over 18 to vote from home. It notes issues with current physical voting systems like long queues and aims to increase voter turnout with a convenient online option. The proposed system would require voters to register with ID and password in order to securely cast anonymous votes online. The project would develop the necessary software tools like a database, website, and security protocols to implement this vision of online democratic participation.
The document presents a secure electronic voting system. It discusses the objectives of providing a secure, simple and reliable e-voting system. It outlines the disadvantages of traditional paper-based voting. The architecture of the proposed secure e-voting system is then described, which uses a three-tier architecture with an interface layer, application logic layer and database layer. Key aspects include voter authentication using a zero-knowledge proof protocol, homomorphic encryption of votes, and tallying of votes without decryption. The document provides details of the various phases and requirements of the secure e-voting system.
This document describes a student project for an online voting system. It includes a declaration by the student that the work is their own, an approval from their supervisor, and dedications and acknowledgements. It also provides an abstract, definitions of terms, an executive summary and literature review on online voting systems and security issues. The methodology, system design, specifications, implementation, modules, testing and conclusions are described over 6 chapters. The project aims to address problems with existing voting systems and justify the need for an online system.
The document proposes a computerized voting system using barcodes to address problems with the current manual voting process for the Supreme Student Council at Marinduque State College. The system aims to streamline registration and counting of votes using barcodes scanned by each voter. It would allow viewing of candidate information and accept blank votes. Results and rankings could then be previewed through the new system. Some limitations are that new registrations require prior enrollment and the system cannot view vote counting or accept feedback posts.
This document provides a project report on an online voting system created by Nitin Bhasin for NIIT. The report includes an introduction to the online voting system, background and significance of the study, objectives, justification, scope, requirements, and database design. It aims to address issues with existing voting methods in India by providing a secure online system for citizens to vote from anywhere using just a voter ID and password.
The document outlines the key aspects of an online voting system project. It includes sections on the introduction, background, objectives, justification, scope, requirements, and security issues of the online voting system. It also provides entity relationship and data flow diagrams to model the system's design, along with proposed database tables, screenshots, and conclusions. The goal of the project is to develop an automated and secure online system to allow voters to cast their votes from any location in a fast, convenient, and verifiable manner.
This document provides an overview of a project presentation on an online voting system. It discusses the objectives of creating an online system to make voting more efficient compared to traditional methods. It then outlines some key features of the project like secure login, viewing candidate profiles, and casting votes. The document also includes technological requirements, an overview of the system architecture using MVC, and an introduction to using ASP.NET as the development framework.
In this system the voter will scan his AADHAAR card barcode and authaunticate with his/her fingure prints... and than the candidates list in there respective area will be displayed , and then the voter will vote for the candidate he wants.. the vote is secure in
the same voting machine.
This document describes a website project for online voting submitted to a competition. The website allows citizens to vote online and check election results. It was created using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, ASP.NET and MS Access. The objectives are to provide election information, information about political parties and leaders, and enable online voting. This would help address issues with traditional voting like long times, booth capturing, and delays in counting ballots. The future potential applications mentioned are expanding it to other elections like Lok Sabha elections.
fingerprint based electronic voting machinesanthu652
This document presents a finger print based voting machine that uses finger print identification to allow voters to cast their votes. It consists of a microcontroller, finger print module, EEPROM, LCD display, and other components. The finger print module extracts features from the voter's finger print and matches it to stored templates to verify identities. If matched, the voter can cast their vote which is stored in EEPROM. The system aims to provide secure voting using biometric identification while overcoming issues with other methods like EVM machines. It is presented as having advantages like being cost effective, time efficient, and preventing invalid votes.
E-Voting system is a system which allow all citizens of country to cast their vote online is to increase the overall voting percentage across the country, as in the recent scenario people have to visit the booth to cast their vote and those people who live out of their native place are not able to cast vote during the elections. So due to this the voting percentage across the country is very less. Through this software those people who live out of their home town will also be able to cast their votes as this system is online. The main objective of this software is to increase the overall voting percentage and create and manage polling and election details like general user details, nominated users, and election and result details efficiently.
This document discusses issues related to e-voting and proposes potential solutions. It addresses challenges like ensuring vote secrecy and preventing coercion while allowing for verifiability. Technical problems could include malware, DDoS attacks and network vulnerabilities. Proposed mitigations involve techniques such as blind signatures, mixnets, blockchains and paper audits. The document argues that with open development, testing and oversight, e-voting could help accessibility while reducing risks compared to entirely paper-based systems, but more research is still needed to solve security and usability challenges.
In the era of technology, the voting machine, which is present today, is highly unsecured. Being in the age of Computers we are compromising the security by opting for Electronic voting machine because in the present electronic voting machine is not intelligent that is it cannot determine the person came for the voting is eligible or not . That mean the whole control is kept in the hand of voting in charge officer. One more risk with the present voting machine is that anybody can increase the vote count, since the count is present in the machine itself.
In proposed machine that is “Global Wireless E-Voting” , The machine is made intelligent which can determine the eligibility of the voter by scanning the eye pattern and also the vote count is not kept into the same machine itself instead of it it is store in the remote server by converting it into radio waves. Here there is no chance of increasing the vote count of machine. Even in case of damage to voting machine there will not be harm to continuity of the election process. The machine provides high level of security, authentication, reliability, and corruption -free mechanism. By this we can get result within minute after a completion of voting. Minimum manpower Utilization, hence mechanism is error free.
Global Wireless E-Voting is an intelligent system which can determine the eligibility of the voter by scanning the eye pattern and also the vote count is not kept into the same machine itself instead of it is store in the remote server by converting it into radio waves.
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The machine provides high level of security, authentication, reliability, and corruption -free mechanism. Here there is no chance of increasing the vote count of machine. Even in case of damage to voting machine there will not be harm to continuity of the election process. Results of election can be found out within minutes of completion of the election. Minimum manpower Utilization, hence mechanism is error free.
This project is designed for electronic voting machine by using the fingerprint identification method.
Here voters thumb impressions are used for identifying the voters.
During voting when the voter keeps his/her thumb in the scanner, the system will check whether it matches with pre stored impressions in the database.
If it matches then system will allow the voter to poll his vote and otherwise prevent the voter from polling.
ADVANTAGES
The main advantages of the systems are,
Providing the preventive measures system for voting.
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It is capable of saving considerable printing stationery and transport of large volumes of electoral material.
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Electronic Voting System
1. CHAPTER ONE
1.0. INTRODUCTION
Electronic voting system (EVS) 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.
Generally, the major approaches towards achieving an effective on line
electronic.
VOTING SYSTEM (EVS)
• Scope of E-voting system
• Specifies the system requirements
• Specifies the participating parties of the system and describes their
roles,
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2. • Specifies the architecture of the E-voting system, the general
description of the functionally, protocols and algorithms,
• Analyses and describes possible security of hazards & examines
the compliance of the system to security requirements.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The Federal Republic of Nigeria. Nigeria is a Federal constitutional
republic comprise thirty-six states and its Federal capital Territory,
Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders
with the Republic of Benin in the West, Chad and Cameroon in the South
lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and
most influential ethnic groups Nigeria are the Hausas, Igbo and Yoruba
in terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half between
Muslims and Christians with a very small Minority who practice
traditional religions.
Nigeria elects on Federal level, a head of state the President and a
legislature (The National Assembly). The President is elected by the
people. The national Assembly has two chambers. The House of
Representative has 360 member elected for a four year term in single-seat
constituencies. The senate has 109 member elected for a four years term
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3. each of the 36 states are divided into 3 senatorial districts, each of
which is represented by one senator, the Federal capital Territory
represented by only one senator.
Nigeria made up of thirty-six (36) states with 774 local governments.
In the Local Governments they have the chairman and the Counselor, the
state governed by the Governors and the Local Government by the
chairman and counselors and there are all elected by the people of the
state.
That is to say that there are about 2054 elective positions in Nigeria.
1 President
360 House of Representatives
109 Senators
36. States Governors
774 Local Government Chairman
774 Local Government Counselors
1.2 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
1. An electronic voting system (EVS) will require being very
precise or cost cutting to produce an effective election
management system.
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4. 2. Therefore crucial points that this (EVS) emphasizes on are
listed below.
3. Require les number of staff during the election.
4. This system is a lot easier to independently moderate the
elections and subsequently reinforce its transparency and
fairness.
5. Less capital, les effort, and less labour intensive, as the
primary cost and effort will focus primarily on creating,
managing, and running a secure online was looting portal.
6. Increased number of voters as individual will find it easier and
more convenient to vote, especially in western societies where
life is a lot more regimented and programmed.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The objective is to produce a computer-based tutor that will guide voting
in Nigeria which can speed the counting of ballots and can provide
improved accessibility for disable voters, it will also provide
transparency; mitigate all challenge that may be experienced in setting up
polling booths dealing with ballot boxes, and any counting deficiencies,
and a host of others issues. Having proper fire-walls installed it is aimed
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5. at eliminating the abnormalities and error in the existing system. It also
aims at reducing the crime and fraudulence activities encountered with
the old voting existing system in Nigeria.
1.4. SCOPE OF STUDY.
It is focused on studying the existing system of voting in Nigeria 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 labour intensive, as the primary cost and
focus primary on creating, managing, and running a secure web
voting portal.
• In creasing number of voters as individuals will find it easier and
more convenient to vote, especially in western society were life is
a lot more regimented and programmed.
1.5. LIMITATION OF STUDY
Time factor, which is the greatest barrier to the successful completion of
this exercise, I had financial constraints to traveling. The school is also a
barrier to permission for exit to get my materials for this project.
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6. 1.6. DEFINITION OF TERM
EVS – On line electronic voting system
E-voting - Electronic Voting
INEC - Independent National Electoral Commission
EVR - Electronic Voter Register
PU- Polling Unit
ICT- Information and communication Technology
ECIL- Federal Election Commission
ES & S - Election systems & software
VVPAT- vote verifiable paper audit trails
PEB- Personal Electronic Ballot
PIN- Personal Identity Number
MBB- Mobile Ballot Box
JBC- judges Booth Controller
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7. CHAPTER TWO
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
David Chaum addressed the concepts of untraceable electronic mail and
digital pseudonyms, which can apply for electronic voting for anonymity.
In order to reduce the cost of human and material, moreover, to enhance
the convenience in the task of polling, E-voting has taken the place of
traditional voting in a considerable number of countries over the past few
years. In this section, I aim to review literature I consider relevant to E-
voting.
2.1 EVALUATION OF VOTING EQUIPMENT
In the recent years, voting equipments which were widely adopted may
be divided into five types
(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
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8. 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.
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9. (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.
2.2 Effectiveness of E-voting Among Different Countries
Recent years, a considerable number of countries has adopted E-voting
for their official elections. In this section, four empirical examples are
enumerated as following.
(1) America: Government of the United States hold election
collaterally in several ways, in other words, each state can choose
the suitable way to hold elections independently. Because there are
some debates about E-voting, such as some vote casts were not
counted, or election system crashed during the Election Day.
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley established an “Ad Hoc Touch
Screen Task Force” to research the debates on DRE in February
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10. 2003. Shelly advanced that DRE should include voter verifiable
paper audit trails (VVPAT) to solve electoral debates.
(2) Japan: Japan adopted E-voting for local election in 2002, such as
mayor and councilor election of Niimi city in Okayama prefecture
in June 23, 2002; mayor election of Hiroshima city in February 02,
2003; and mayor election of Kyoto city in February 08, 2004.
Take mayor and councilor election of Niimi city for example,
electoral center surveyed the voters’ reliability when the election
finished. There are 83% of voters considered that E-voting system
is trusted. 56% of them considered that the results of E-voting and
paper-based voting are the same therefore E-voting is sufficient for
reliable. The reasons why voters can’t trust the E-voting system
are voters worried about the abuses in E-voting system, and they
can not make sure their ballot are recorded correctly.
(3) Belgium: Election for the Federal Parliament is held in May 18,
2003. In order to assist voters in being familiar with E-voting
system, electoral center held short-term training. Counting
efficiency in the election with E-voting system was faster then
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11. convention. Belgium’s compulsory voting system and E-voting
complement each other, voters’ satisfaction and attending
willingness of join voting are improved obviously.
(4) Brazil: Brazil used E-voting in 1998. When the voter reaches the
polling place, he shows his identity card for authenticating; if he is
an eligible voter, he can get the ballot for E-voting. Brazil’s E-
voting system transmits votes to electoral center immediately, so
that the count of votes can announce rapidly while the voting
finished
2.3 COMPARISON OF E-VOTING SYSTEM
Besides many vendors to develop and sell commercial electronic election
machines, there are various open source E-voting systems. I cite some
examples as following
(1) AccuVote-TS: AccuVote-TS’s vendor is Diebold Election
Systems. This system includes touch screen, card reader,
keyboard, headphone, and paper tape printer. The voter selects his
favorite candidate on touch screen, and the vote will be printed on
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12. the paper tape. Its design balances the policy, electoral procedure
and technology. But all the electoral information (including
identity authentication, audit, or counting of votes) are stored in
Microsoft Access database without setting password so there are
high risks of attack.
(2) iVotronic: The vendor of iVotronic is Election Systems and
Software (ES&S). iVotronic provides multi-language, and uses flash
memory to save voting records. Electoral workers use PEB (Personal
Electronic Ballot, a device which is similar to disk) to start polling
machine up. When the election is finished, the workers use PEB to
access voting records in the polling machine, then delivers PEB to
electoral center or transmits data from network. Because the PEB’s
password is only three characters, the risk of password breaking
exists. This system have made mistake in the past elections, such as
the number of voters is not corresponding between master server and
backup server, the candidate selected on the ballot is not the voter’s
selection, and so forth.
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13. (3) eSlate 3000: Hart InterCivic invented eSlate 3000. The voter gets
a personal identity number (PIN) as four digits from electoral
workers, then goes to the booth to input the PIN into polling
machine to login. He can rotate selector wheel to select the
candidate whom he want to poll for. Each terminal connects to the
server which is named JBC (Judges Booth Controller). Counting
of votes will send to JBC from every terminal by network, then
save it in MBB (Mobile Ballot Box). This system doesn’t encrypt
voting data, so there are some risks of data security. Furthermore,
the electoral functions are not protected with password, anyone,
even the voter, can finish the election. FreeDOS. This system
operates from disk, so hard disk is not necessary and the discarded
computer is enough. This system is not connected to any networks
and most of keys on the keyboard are disabled, attackers can’t find
the way to invade. SAVIOC’s advantages are its simple
disposition and low cost, but on the other hand, there are short of
GUI and ease of use on SAVIOC.
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14. 2.4 Contact less IC card
We can distinguish IC card into contact card and contact less card.
Contact card has to contact with card reader for transmitting data, but
contact less card can transmit data from remote retrieval by coil. There
are 16 sectors in the contact less IC card, and there are 4 blocks in every
sector. Each sector is individual. We can find the application of contact
less card in daily life, such as Easy Card, entrance guard card, and so
forth. Because of Mifare card’s low cost and applicability, our research
choose Mifare card for storage.
2.5 THE SECURITY ISSUES OF E-VOTING
Foreign experience revealed that they are often confronted by security
issues while the electronic voting system is running. The origin of the
security issues happened 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
crashed.
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15. 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 preventing the command injection from running
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16. CHAPTER THREE
3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the source of data methods of collection, the evaluation of
the existing system and the organization structure of the system problem
are presented.
3.1. What is System Analysis?
A system is a collection of activities and elements organized to
accomplish a goal. In system analysis, data is collected about the present
system. The data is then analyzed and new requirements are determined.
System analysis is on determining the requirement for a new system.
Three tasks of this phone are gathering data, Analyzing the data, and
documenting the analyses.
• Gathering data is done by observation, interviews, and
questionnaire and looking at documents, one of which is the
organization chart which shows an organizers foundations and
levels of management.
• Analyzing data:- there are several tools for the analyzing of data
which includes checklist, decision tables and system flows charts
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17. • Documenting system analysis. To document and to communicate
the finding of phase 2, a system analysis report is prepared for
higher management.
3.2. SYSTEM DESIGN.
In system design, new or alternative information is designed. This phase
consist of three tasks;
3.2.1 DESIGNING ALTERNATIVE SYSTEM
An alternative information system is designed and each alternative is
evaluating for:
(A). Economic feasibility – Costs and benefits, time for the system to
pay for (itself)
(B). Technical feasibility:- land ware and software reliability, available
training
(C). Operational feasibility:- the ability the system to work within the
organization
3.3 SELECTING THE BEST SYSTEM.
Question is considered when selecting the best system:-
1. Will the system fit into an overall information system?
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18. 2. Will the system be flexible enough to be modified ad needed in
the feature?
3. Will it be secure against unauthorized use?
4. Will the systems benefit exceed its costs?
5. Writing the system design report:- this is to document and it
communicate the finding of phase 3, a system design report is
prepared for longer management.
3.4 SOURCE OF DATA
The original document which provide a reference for the new system. It
also provides a proper picture of what if happening in the voting system
(Nigeria).
3.5 METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION
(A) Studying of Procedures Manuals
Written documents on voting System (Nigeria) was read to obtain
information on how the system works. This form of date collection was
use full in the sense that it sealed light into the present voting system an
also enable the system.
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19. (B) Evaluation of forms.
These provide information that is required within a section of the system
and what is contained in. The printed output form shade more knowledge
on which department representatives receive each document and where it
is sent to after is has being uses.
(C) Interviewing of departmental representatives
After obtaining thorough understanding of preset system through
evaluation of present system through evaluation of forms and manuals .I
wert further to interview the representatives involve in the actual
operation of the system .These people explained more or the system and
the basic reliable because the system put into consideration the basic
flows.
3.6 ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is a
nonpartisans Nigerian government agency charged with the conduct and
supervision of elections. In the late 1990s, the agency began modernizing
its information technology infrastructure by migrating from an outdated
legacy voting system heavily dependent on inaccurate paper records and
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20. polling cards to the newer Electronic voting system (EVS), at the heart of
EVS is the electronic voter register (EVR), which by capturing the names
of all eligible voters, eliminates duplication and there by minimizes
discrepancies in the electrode process. As such, EVR is viewed as a
means of ensuring free and fair elections in Nigeria. As part of the
modernization process. INEC needed to inventory and spatially locate the
agency’s 120,000 polling locations scattered around the country, these
locations and threat attributes needed to be linked to EVR.
GIS technology was identified as a potential solution to the problem, and
TTi limited (formerly Adorbel ltd.) a consultant responsible for the field
data collection and project management for INEC. Subcontracted Esri
Business part to design and implement a polling unit (PU) GIS. Geo-
imaging proposed integrating GIS, digital photography, and DBMS
technologies to create a data collection tool capable of capturing the X, Y
locations and images of existing polling units. Since the clients budget
constraints precluded the purchase of GIS software, the use of an
industry standard development environment to create an application with
GIS/mapping capabilities was also proposed. The application would then
be linked to EVR.
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21. 3.7 PROBLEM OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
1. registration of candidates
2. preparation of polling list
3. counting of votes
4. operation threat
5. God-fatherism
6. selection not election
7. attitude to voting
8. too many party system
9. appointment of incredible individuals as INEC chairman
10.war and guns before and on the election day
11.bed management
12.buying of votes
13.less of life
14.security threats
15.cost
16.time
17.location of polling boxes
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22. 3.8 SOLUTIONS OF THE EXISTING PROBLEM
(A). A sable solution to all these problem is the use of computerized
system (E-voting system) for high processing speed, minimum number of
staff
(B). Change of attitude by all- election anomalies that we all experience
now are rooted in attitude of all stakeholders in the electoral system.
Voters should change their attitude of believing in money polities.
(C). Credible election can be conducted by reforming the Nigeria
police force.
(D). Adoption of a tow party system.
(E). Appointment not credible individuals in to INEC
3.9 FLOWCHART AND SYSTEM FLOWCHART
Flowchart symbols are graphic tools in which symbols and shapes are
used to document the flow of control within a program or system. This
also involves use in the logical processing of the system. It shows the
step-by-step sequence of computer operations necessary in solving
problems.
The tow major types of flowchart include
1. the program flowchart
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23. 2. the system flowchart
The re may be some variations on theses symbols are linked with
directed lines (lines with arrows) showing the flow of data through the
system.
Transactions are input, validated and sorted and then used to update a
master filer.
NOTE: - the arrows show the flow of data through the system. The
dotted line shows that the updated master file is then used as input for the
next update process. This is a pictorial representation of how the
hardware components work with the programs of the system. It uses
conventional system to represent its action and flow of control between
the hardware the hardware components as show below, yet flowchart
involves creating a flow model that illustrate and analyzes the overall
flow activities in producing a product or services.
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24. 3.9.1 System Flowchart Symbols and Their Functions
Figure 3.1: system flowchart symbols
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27. Figure 3. 2: Program flowchart
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 SYSTEM DESIGN AND SPECIFICATION
System design is the process or art of defining the architecture,
components, modules, interfaces, and data for a system to satisfy
specified requirements. One could see it as the application of system
theory to product, and development.
Systems design is therefore the process of defining and developing a
system to satisfy specified requirements of the market or customer. Until
the 1990s system design had a crucial and respected role in the data
Main Menu Form
Choose From
Form List
Perform Operation
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28. processing industry. In the 1990s standardization of hardware and
software resulted in the ability to build modular system.
Object – oriented analysis and design methods are becoming the most
widely used methods for computer system design. The UML has become
the standard language used in Object- oriented analysis and design. It is
widely used for modeling software systems and is increasing used for
designing non-software systems and organizations.
After analysis, and discovering the problem of the existing system, there
is need to produces a new produce a new system, which will eliminate
these problems design. To carry out the design effectively, the following
steps are involved:
4.2 INPUT SPECIFICATION
In the input specification we made use of the keyboard to enter the
password, and user name which allows early if right and refuses when
wrong. We also made use of the keyboard to supply text, or number
through the application and supply text program when working with a
high- level program.
All other input data for the system execution are present at menu options
and is selected by sticking easily identifiable keys, example the arrows
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29. keys, example the arrow keys the alphabetic character keys, enter and
escape keys.
4.3 OUTPUT SPECIFICATION
In this system, all outputs are retrieved from disk storage where
information resulting from both input and processing operations has been
previously stored.
In designing a system, one should bear in mind to minimize complexity
and platform. The output, specifications are identified below
4.4 FILE SPECIFICATION
A file is a collection of related records. A record is a collection of
information about someone or something of interest. Record is made up
of fields. A field provides a specific item or data about the subject of a
record. The system made use of two files
i. The input file
ii. The output file
4.5 INPUT FILE
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30. These are files previously, defined or created during processing of the
system. You text area on the existing screen. However, before doing
this it is important to note the following .
You enter the text simply by typing it on the keyboard, while the
insertion point (cursor) moves to the right as the character are typed.
When a wrong character is typed, you can delete this by using the
backspace key or using Del key when cursor is at the point of the text
4.6 OUTPUT FILES
These are files that contain information resulted from processing. We
have the previewing of a document file, and retrieving a file (i.e.
opening a saved document), previewing a document before printing.
You can use the print preview command to show how a document
will look when you print it. While you can’t edit text in print preview,
you can move headers and footers. To preview icon present there on
the menu or the file menu observation: you will notice that the page
where you can do one of the following;
Choose the print button in the print preview bar to print the document
or choose the button to return to the previous view of the document.
4.6.1 TO PRINT PART OF A DOCUMENT.
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31. Follow the above steps, while in the page range box, select the current
page option button then click ok button.
4.6.2 RETRIEVING A FILE
Now that one have saved the document, you simply type with
analysis.doc, one can now retrieve (i.e. re- opening a file that was
previously saved) this file for processing, the processing of such file
may include editing, viewing, formatting e.t.c we can retrieve the said
file through the following procedures;
Select the open command from the toolbar or
Choose open the file menu or
Press (ALT, F, O) on the keyboard.
Observation; one will observe that content of the selected file is
displayed on the screen for editing.
4.7 DATABASE SPECIFICATION
There is need to provide an efficient data storage procedure for
holding and securing critical information. This data storage module is
known as the data base. A database is an index computer data storage
and retrieval. The database management system (DBMS) creates and
packages the database. There are numerous DBMS technology
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32. available today such as; ORACLE, MS ACCESS, SQL SEVER, and
so no. for this project, the DBMS used is the MS ACCESS. MS
ACCESS is the database editor of the popular Ms office
tools/Application, MS Access stores data or information in tables
which are structured into fields. The ms access database file for the
project is user INEC.mbd. It holds information on the administrator
user’s password.
The database contains four tables
i. FED CANDIDATES: - This table holds the information for
registered candidates in the presidential category.
FIELD NAME DATA TYPE
ID AUTONUMBER
FNAME TEXT
INAME TEXT
STATE TEXT
SEX TEXT
PARTY TEXT
VOTES NUMBER
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33. Figure 4.3: fed candidate table for the presidential category
ii. STATE CANDIDATES:- This table holds the information for
registered candidates in the Governorship category.
FIELD NAME DATA TYPE
ID AUTONUMBER
FNAME TEXT
INAME TEXT
STATE TEXT
SEX TEXT
PARTY TEXT
VOTES NUMBER
Figure4. 4: state candidates table for the governorship category
iii. LOCAL CANDIDATES: - Table holds the information for
registered candidates in the chairman and counselors category.
FIELD NAME DATA TYPE
ID AUTONUMBER
FNAME TEXT
INAME TEXT
STATE TEXT
SEX TEXT
PARTY TEXT
VOTES NUMBER
Figure4. 5: local candidates table for the local category
iv. Voters:- This table holds information of registered voters
FIELD NAME DATA TYPE
VOTERS ID TEXT
PIN NUMBER
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34. FNAME TEXT
INAME TEXT
ADDRESS TEXT
STATE TEXT
SEX TEX
VOTED NUMBER
Figure 4.6: voters registering table
4.9 SYSTEM FLOWCHART
This is a pictorial representation of how the hardware components work
with the programs of the system. It uses conventional symbols to
represent its action and flow of control between the hardware
components as show below, yet flowchart involves creating a flow model
that illustrate and analyzes the overall flow activities in producing a
product or services.
Voter’s Registration Flowchart
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YES
Start
Enter Voters ID
Enter Names
Enter Party
Enter State of origin
Has
Mat No
Been
Registered
?
Stop
NO
Error Message
“Cannot
Register Twice”
Generate PIN code
Display PIN code
Process RegistrationDatabase
Generate Voters ID
35. Figure4. 7: Voter’s Registration Flowchart
Voting Process Flowchart
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Start
Enter Voters
ID
And PIN
Is Login
Correct
?
Allow to
Vote
Stop
Error Message
“Cannot Vote
Twice”
Verify if
the Voter
has
Voted
Before
36. Figure4. 8: voter’s process flowchart
Candidates Registration Form
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Start
Enter Names
Enter Political party
Enter State of Origin
Stop
Process
Registration
No
Yes
37. Figure4.9: Candidates Registration Form
View Results Process
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Start
Enter Username
and Password
Is Login
Correct?
Display Results
Yes
No
38. Figure 4.10: view result process
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 SYSTEM REQUIREMENT AND IMPLEMENT OF SYSTEM
SPECIFICATION
The purpose of this section is to highlight on the implementation
environment of the system. This covers the hardware and software
environments for the implementation phase of the system design and
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39. development. A top-down design approach was used in structuring the
program. The system consists of modules and sub-modules which are
linked up to facilitate easy flow of data and control.
5.1 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
Software is a collection of programs or instructions written in any
computer language, which enables flexibility to do whatever the user
wants.
This package can only be run and developed with the following
minimum software requirements;-
a. Windows XP, Vista or Window 7
b. Visual Basic Compiler 6
c. Microsoft Access 2003 version
5.2 SYSTEM SOFTWARE.
These are of software written by system programmers that interpret
instructions contained in the application software (program) and then
provide the basic instruction to the central processor so that the various
hardware units, which make up the computer system, can function as
desired or intended. Example is DOS.
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40. System software manages and controls computer hardware so that
application software can perform a test. Operating systems, such as
Microsoft system software. System software contrasts with application
software, which is programmed that enable the end-user to perform
specific, productive tasks, such as word processing or image
manipulation.
System software performs tests like transferring date from memory to
disk, or rendering text onto a display device. Specific kinds of system
software include loading programs, operating systems device drivers,
programming tool compilers, assemblers, linkers, and utility software. If
system software is stored on non- volatile memory such as integrated
circuits, it is usually termed firmware. Which refers to the operating
system and all utility programs that manage computer resources at a low
level.
5.3 APPLICATION SOFTWARE
Application software can be seen as end user software designed to
accomplish variety of task such as MS words. They are usually programs
or programming system available from a supplier that comes complete
ready to perform some defined tasks. Application software is a subclass
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41. of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly
and thoroughly to perform a task that the user wishes to perform.
5.4 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT
The system functions well with a good computer compatible with a hard
disk drive of 20GB. This is needed to save the program so that it can be
made available any time. It requires a visual display unit (VDU) of high
resolution and graphic ability for good display of all outputs.
A functional floppy dive is needed to be used as backup or disk in case
the programs served on hard disk is eventually destroyed by a virus. An
uninterrupted power supply (UPS) is needed to sustain power failure for
sometimes whenever PHCH puts of power supply.
5.5 This software requires the following minimum hardware for its
development and running;
• Pentium 266HZ – 566HZ
• 512MB RAM
• 14’ super video graphic adapter monitor (SVGA)
• 20GB of hard disk
• A mouse or mouse sensitive used on laptops
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42. • Window XP, vista or window 7
• Uninterrupted power supply (UPS), lasting for at least 24 hours.
5.6 LANGUAGE JUSTIFICATION
The visual basic 6 language is the language used in designing the
program for the system V.B.6.0 language offers the best in terms of its
availability, easy to understand good graphic ability, flexibility and
machine independence. The program can run in other versions i.e. 2003
and 2005 with little modification.
System selection to select a module (subsystem) when the main is
displayed on the screen, the cursor is passed to choose on optional and
enter to select it. If this is done, control is passed to the main program
after a subro9utine is completed depending on the task that needs to
be1accomplished by the user choosing the exit do terminate a subroutine,
this returns control to the calling program and to terminate the system is
by closing exit application from the main menu.
5.7 SUBSYSTEM SELECTION
Retrieving/ open a saved document.
With the file menu you can retrieve document into memory by clicking
the file menu’s open command you can also click on the icon on the
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43. toolbar. When you click the open command, notepad displays the open
dialog box with a list of all the names of document to be retrieved. Notice
that the open dialog box has a text where you have the mouse pointer
already positioned.
You can type the name of the document to be retrieved other until you
get to your desired filename. To retrieve, click the open button. This is
just one of the several ways to open documents.
5.8 THE PRINT PREVIEW OPTION
Before printing your document (voting result) you may wish to have an
idea of how it will look when you finally print it. The print preview
feature is used to achieve this. In the print preview window, you can see
the overall appearance of one page, or all the pages. Previewing the
document can save you time and paper, because it reduces the number of
times you print the document before it looks exactly the way you want.
To preview a document either click on the print preview button on the
standard toolbar or choose print preview from the file menu.
5.9 THE PRINT OPTION
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44. You can click the print button on the standard toolbar to print the entire
document using default settings, or you can use the print command to
select different printing options.
5.10 REVIEW OF PROGRAM LANGUAGE IN USE
There are several Program language currently is used in school and they
include Q- BASIC, PASCAL, CH, C Visual Basic and Java etc.
However, this project was done to suit interacting processing rather than
batch processing, also immediately response expected from the computer
as output or feedback to the input in an online processing simplifies and
makes the work faster. It is a high-level language that can be translated
into a machine language and can be understood by most computers
easily.
5.11 SYSTEM CONVERSION.
This involves the procedure used in changing from the old to the new
system and are;
* Direct Conversion:
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45. The old system is continued and the new system becomes effectively
immediately.
* Phased Conversion:
The new system is implemented gradually over a period of time. The
entire implementation process is broken down into different process. This
phase ensures that the new system is fully in perfect operation before
discarding the old are completely.
* Pilot Conversion.
The new system (reverting) is tried out using the local government
selection first. Once the system is running smoothly in that part, then it is
implemented throughout the rest of the election in Nigeria
5.12 TESTING
During the design stage of the system, of the system was done to verify
its efficiency and resistance to deliberate errors. This can be done in toe
stages which include:-
• Unit testing – the performance of the individual parts are
examined using test data.
• System testing – the parts are linked together and the test data is
used to see if the parts works together.
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46. 5.13 ACCESS
Use of right password
5.14 MENU SELECTION
The use of wrong keys for valid options
Press key randomly
Press keys which choice module is being loaded user’s data entry
Press keys randomly
Highlight with normal keys on keyboard
CHAPTER SIX
6.0 CONCLUSIONS
To sum up, this project clarifies the requirements and key elements of E-
voting system, and my implementation provides the following features.
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47. To begin with, the accuracy of voter’s identity and ballot card are
ensured with this voting system. Next, voter’s identities are not written in
the ballot card to protect voter’s privacy and confidentiality. This system
will validate whether the ballot card is authorized or not, to make sure
only legal user can vote, and voter’s authorities are limited in order to
prevent his violation. Furthermore, this system fits in with the parts of
principles proposed by IPI, including secrecy, non-coercibility, integrity,
and uniqueness.
But because of the limitation of incomplete laws and regulations,
absentee voting can’t be held. It still needs to be discussed in legislative
systems. In the future, to eliminate maladministration and human
destruction, setting up a strongly secure E-voting system is necessary. It
can speed up the electoral procedures, make ballot counting
efficaciously, and use resource effectively.
6.1 RECOMMENDATION
Having seen the problem encountered in using the old system of voting,
the following are recommends.
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48. I recommend that INEC should employ this system of E-voting and the
staffs that will be handing this software package be given training on
computer bases on how to use the new system.
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