electronic voting

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Project Proposal Topic
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A BIOMETRIC
REGISTRATION SYSTEM WITH ELECTRONIC VOTING
A CASE STUDY ( METHODIST UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
GHANA, STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL )
Presented By ERNEST TETE - MENSAH
BIT/EP/09/10/1221 BERNARD AMOO
BSSI/ED/103092 BRIGHT YAW ABORVOR BSSI/ED/118589
MAKENZY ABASS GUMAH BSSI/ED/110779
SUPERVISOR MR. ISAAC BANSAH
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Outlines

• Background Description
• Problem Statement
• Objectives Of The Study
• Significance
• Scope Of The Study And Limitation
• Methodology
• Literature Review
• Chapter Disposition
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• Choosing Leaders is one activity that is carried
  out in every society. In todays world, most
  leaders are chosen not by appointment but usually
  by election.
• Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting
  or an electorate to make a decision or express an
  opinionoften following discussions, debates, or
  election campaigns. It is often found in
  Democracies and Republics.
• Biometrics is the identification or verification
  of human identity through the measurement of
  repeatable physiological and behavioral
  characteristics
• Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is a
  term encompassing several different types of
  voting, embracing both electronic means of
  casting a vote and electronic means of counting
  votes

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• ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM is a web based application
  in which voter can use his\her voting right
  online without any difficulty.
• He\She has to fill a registration form to
  register himself\herself. All the entries is
  checked by the DATABASE which has already all
  information about the voter.
• If all the entries are correct then a USER ID and
  PASSWORD is given to the voter, by using that ID
  and PASSWORD he\she can use his\her vote.
• If conditions are wrong then that entry will be
  discarded

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Proposed work

• There are formulations of Online voting
  systems. Here we shall take as starting point the
  eight requirements. It lists the following eight
  requirements.
• Transparency
• Verifiability
• fairness / integrity
• Eligibility
• equal suffrage
• free suffrage / votes freedom
• secret suffrage / vote secrecy
• accessibility

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Proposed Methodology

• Generally, e-voting systems consist of six main
  phases
• Voters registration
• Authentication
• Voting and votes saving
• Votes managing
• Votes counting
• Election Result

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Voters registration
Authentication
Voting and votes saving
Votes managing
Votes counting
Election Result
Phases Of Online
Voting
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Hardware and software requirement

• Minimum Software Requirement
• Operating System Windows
• Technology Java/J2EE (JDBC,
• 
  servlets,jsp)
• Web Technologies Html, JavaScript,
  CSS
• IDE Netbeans IDE
• Web Server Tomcat
• Database Oracle
• Softwares J2SDK1.5, Tomcat 5.5

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Hardware and software requirement

• Hardware requirements
• Hardware
  Pentium based systems
  with a minimum of P5
• RAM
  256MB (minimum)

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LITERATURE REVIEW

• Biometrics can be sorted into two classes
• Physiological Examples - face, fingerprints,
  hand geometry and iris Recognition, dna.
• Behavioral Examples-signature and voice.
• Prior to the use of Internet or other forms of
  biometrics, there exists other means of carrying
  out a voting process, namely
• Manual Voting This is the type of voting whereby
  voters get registered, be authenticated, obtain
  and mark their ballot papers, and deliver them to
  a ballot box. The use of VIN is applied here.
• Electronic Voting Here the use of a
  microcontroller-based device is applied. Below is
  a typical example of an electronic voting
  device.
• Online Voting This employs the use of internet
  to carry out voting in real time.

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USE CASE DIAGRAM FOR ELECTION COMMISSIONER
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USE CASE DIAGRAM FOR VOTER
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Data Flow Diagram
DFD Level 0
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DATA FLOW DIAGRAM

• The above diagram is a 0-level DFD that only
  shows the flow of data between the various and
  the system. In online voting system the Election
  Commisioner is the controller of the system and
  all the decisions are made by him. The Election
  Commisioner can handle the entire voter and
  their details, voting details etc. and view
  details of them and he can update that detail
  also.

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DFD Level 1
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DFD -1

• The above shown diagram is a 1-level Data Flow
  Diagram for the Online voting system. According
  to this DFD various process are done after login
  process. The Administrator can register voter.
  The ELECTION COMMISION can register the voters
  and voter can use their voting rights. The voter
  can view the final report after giving vote..

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LIMITATIONS IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE WORK

• "The danger of Internet voting is that we just
  don't know how to make a system like this secure,
  given the limitations of today's technology,
• Once inside the system, the team was able to do
  quite a bit of damage, like access personal
  information of all eligible voters. 
• The use of biometrics can enhance the
  authentication process.
• The system was designed in only 1 language that
  is English it can also be designed in local
  languages for further popularising this software.

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conclusion

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

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References

• Books
• Pressman, R.S.1997, Software Engineering A
  practitioners approach, 4th edn, McGraw Hill,
  International.
• Stallings, W.1999, Cryptography and Network
  Security, 2nd edn, Prentice Hall, New Jersey. 
• Websites
• How PR Irish Election System works, (6th April
  2002), The Irish Electoral System PR-STV,
  Online, R.T.E, Available from
  http//www.voy.com/12949/9.html