An Internet Voting System Manager

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An Internet Voting System Manager
MSE Project - Phase I

• Yonghua Li
• Kansas State University
• October 19, 2001

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Give my thanks to

• Dr. Maria Zamfir-Bleyberg
• Dr. William Hsu
• Dr. David Gustafson

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Presentation Overview

• Project Overview
• Project Requirements
• Object Model
• Cost Estimation
• Project Plan
• Review

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Project Overview

• Problems with current paper process?
• Integrity Fairness
• Validating ballot
• Pregnant ballot
• Positioning candidate name in ballot

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Project Overview (Contd)

• Issues in Designing Internet Voting System (IVS)
• Authentication of voters
• Privacy
• Equity
• Security

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Current Researches on IVS

• Approaches to meeting the security, secrecy,
  scalability, and convenience requirements of
  elections
• Development of methods to reduce the risk of
  insider fraud
• Development of reliable poll site and kiosk
  Internet voting systems that are not vulnerable
  to any single point of failure and cannot lose
  votes

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Current Researches on IVS (contd)

• Development of new procedures for continuous
  testing and certification of election systems
• Protocols for preventing vote selling and
  reducing coercion
• Electronic authentication for kiosk and remote
  voting system

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Current Researches on IVS (contd)

• Human factors design for electronic voting
• Effects of Internet voting on participation in
  elections
• Implications of Internet voting for political
  campaigns
• Experimentation, modeling, and simulation of
  election systems.

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Goals

• To design a manager for an internet voting system
  where voters can cast ballots through internet
• To experiment, model, and simulate some
  approaches on internet election voting system

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Components

• Emphasis on two components
• IVS manager (IVSM) (sever side)
• Voter (client side)
• Integration with other components, e.g., database

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IVSM Sketch
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Object Model of IVSM Component
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Object Model of Client Component
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Basic Functions of IVSM

• Administrator login setup
• login id administrators ID
• password administrators password
• Database setup
• Candidate list database
• Voter database
• Voting period setup
• Start time
• Stop time

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Basic Functions of IVSM (Contd)

• Server initializing
• Ballot counting doing statistics on the voting
  ballots.

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User Diagram of IVSM Component

set up id passwd
administrator
run server
setup database
show voting result
login
Setup voting period
initialize pool
IVSM
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Basic Functions of the Server

• Idling waiting for visit
• Querying getting ballots for the requested
  election title from the database
• Caching storing data and making them available
  to querying
• Uploading sending required blank ballots to
  client.

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User Diagram of Server
idle
query
server
IVSM
cache
upload
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Basic Functions of Client

• Login
• providing voter ID and password
• downloading a blank ballot
• Voting casting the ballot.

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User Diagram of Client
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Cost Estimation Function Point
 
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Cost Estimation - COCOMO
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Project Plan

• Phase 1 Requirements
• August 16, 01 - October 15, 01
• Overview, Cost Estimation, Project Plan, SRS
• Phase 2 Design
• October 16, 01 November 14, 01
• Formal Requirements, SQA, Test Plan, Design,
  Formal Technical Inspection
• Phase 3 Implementation
• November 15, 01 - December 14, 01
• Coding, Testing, Testing/Reliability Evaluation,
  Users Manual, Project Evaluation

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Gantt Chart

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Summary

• Project Overview
• Project Requirements
• Object Model
• Cost Estimation
• Project Plan
• URL http//www.cis.ksu.edu/yli3568/mse/mse.ht
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