Online Secure Voting
Online Secure Voting is
a fully web based voting software solution based on network security. With the
access control capabilities and the reliability, the network security has
tremendously increased in providing authenticity and security.
The
present system conducts the elections manually, which takes lot of effort for
conducting, maintaining and evaluating the voting process. This Automation
helps in overcoming all the above mentioned problems and also helps in avoiding
any kind of tempering that can be done. Rather than employing expensive
consultants to print and mail paper ballots or setup and manage your elections,
secure voting puts the power of online voting in the hands of election
administrators.
This project makes use of Java Servlets which
provides a Java-based solution used to address the problems currently
associated with doing server-side programming. Servlets are objects that
conform to a specific interface that can be plugged into a Java-based server.
Servlets are to the server-side what applets are to the client-side.
Security is provided by RSA algorithm which is an
ASSYMETRIC cryptographic algorithm with a pair of keys used for encryption and
decryption
PROBLEM DEFINITION:
The design of a “good” voting system,
whether electronic or using traditional paper ballots or mechanical devices
must satisfy a number of sometimes competing criteria. The anonymity of a
voter’s ballot must be preserved, both to guarantee the voter’s safety when
voting against a malevolent candidate, and to guarantee that voters have no
evidence that proves which candidates received their votes. The existence of
such evidence would allow votes to be purchased by a candidate. The voting
system must also be tamper-resistant to thwart a wide range of attacks,
including ballot stuffing by voters and incorrect tallying by insiders. A
voting system must be comprehensible to and usable by the entire voting
population, regardless of age, infirmity, or disability. Providing
accessibility to such a diverse population is an important engineering problem
and one where, if other security is done well, electronic voting could be a
great improvement over current paper systems. Flaws in any of these aspects of
a voting system, however, can lead to indecisive or incorrect election results.
PRESENT SYSTEM:
Presently elections are being
conducted with electronic voting machines, which has revolutionized election
conducting process in the last decade.
FEATURES
OF ELECTRONIC VOING MACHINE:
An
Electronic Voting Machine consists of two Units – a Control Unit and a
Balloting Unit – joined by a five-meter cable.
The
Control Unit is with the Presiding Officer or a Polling Officer and the
Balloting Unit is placed inside the voting compartment.
Instead
of issuing a ballot paper, the Polling Officer in-charge of the Control Unit
will press the Ballot Button.
This
will enable the voter to cast his vote by pressing the blue button on the
Balloting Unit against the candidate and symbol of his choice
DISADVANTAGES
OF EVM:
If
we want to engineer a repoll, we can bring an electromagnetic pulse generator
near an EVM and erase its memory.
The
EVMs could also be interfered with after the election but before counting. All
electronic circuits are susceptible to electromagnetic interference. Even when
EVMs are kept physically sealed inside a strong room, an expert who knows the
resonant frequencies of the circuits could remotely send signals from a
distance away.
It
is also not known what physical shocks EVMs can withstand.
Cost
of EVM is also a major drawback.
This system does not avoid the manual work that is
associated with the previous ballot system
PROPOSED
SYSTEM:
Types of Online voting:
According to our previous definition,
we can classify Online voting in two categories:
a. Poll-site voting:
This type of electronic voting takes
place when voters personally attend a specific place to cast their votes,
usually through electronic devices such as touch screen voting terminals. The
identity of the voter is verified with conventional methods (IDs, Passports,
etc.).
b. Remote electronic voting:
This type of online voting takes place
when voters cast their vote from any location with access to the Internet via
mobile telephone, PCs, PDAs, etc. The methods used to identify the voter are
via digital signature, biometrics, PIN codes, etc.
The advantages offered by Online voting:
Ø
Greater
speed and accuracy in the tallying of votes.
Ø
Greater
savings in material costs in the printing and distribution of paper ballots.
Ø
Greater
accessibility for the disabled.
Ø
Flexibility
in the modification of ballot lay outs.
Ø
Support
of multiple languages.
Ø
Better
access to information regarding voting options.
Ø
Prevention
of involuntary errors when filling the ballot.
When the electronic vote is remote, in
addition to the previous advantages,
further benefits are provided:
Ø
Economies
of scale as the size of the electoral roll increases.
Ø
Greater
mobility and convenience for voters.
Ø
Potential
increase of participation in the voting process.
The proposed system is a
fully web based voting software solution which makes efficient use of the
developments in both Information Technology and Network Security. With the
access control capabilities and the reliability, the Network Security has
tremendously increased in providing authenticity and security.
FEATURES:
We provide the following features in
our secure voting system:
Ø
Voter
can vote online with the help of his citizenship id. This is the number on the voter’s citizenship card.
Ø
User’s
choice is encrypted and sent to the server where it is decrypted and updated in
the database maintaining the secrecy of, which party a particular voter voted
for.
Ø
We
also provide facility for the contestants to upload their agenda and other
information about their parties.
Ø
We
provide a facility for a administrator to maintain all the administrative
activities.
At the end of the elections we declare the results
with all the details of election
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