Design and Implementation of a Multimodal Biometric System for Online Voting
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVES OF STUDY
- The main objectives of this project work is to design a fully web voter registration system which should be able to
- – Effectively carryout the task of voting automatically and timely.
- – Put to an end the indiscriminate alteration of election results by any officer of the electoral commission of Enugu. This will inculcate discipline in the commission and promote their independence.
- – Secure ballot papers and elections results from any accident what server and to quickly detect any defaced ballot paper or a ballot paper that is wrongly plumb printed.
- – stop multiple or double voting, forgery in any shape or form and smuggling of ballot papers into ballot boxes. This will restore the integrity of votes cast in any election in Enugu, Enugu state.
- – Generate accurate report and affect a sticks knowledge of election results using an on-line computer processing system.
CHAPTER TWO
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.
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 easy to manufacture paper ballots and the ballots can be retained for verifying, this type is still the most common way to vote.
(2) Lever voting machine: Lever machine is peculiar equipment, and each lever is assigned for a corresponding candidate. The voter pulls the lever to poll for his favorite candidate. This kind of voting machine can count up the ballots automatically. Because its interface is not user-friendly enough, giving some training to voters is necessary.
(3) Direct recording electronic voting machine: This type, which is abbreviated to DRE, integrates with keyboard; touch screen, or buttons for the voter press to poll. Some of them lay in voting records and counting the votes is very quickly. But the other DRE without keep voting records are doubted about its accuracy.
(4) Punch card: The voter uses metallic hole-punch to punch a hole on the blank ballot. It can count votes automatically, but if the voter’s perforation is incomplete, the result is probably determined wrongfully.
(5) Optical voting machine: After each voter fills a circle correspond to their favorite candidate on the blank ballot, this machine selects the darkest mark on each ballot for the vote then computes the total result. This kind of machine counts up ballots rapidly. However, if the voter fills over the circle, it will lead to the error result of optical-scan.
CHAPTER THREE
SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
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.
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
Documenting system analysis. To document and to communicate the finding of phase 2, a system analysis report is prepared for higher management.
CHAPTER FOUR
SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
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 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:
CHAPTER FIVE
CONCLUSIONS
To sum up, this project clarifies the requirements and key elements of Online voting system, and my implementation provides the following features. 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.
RECOMMENDATION
Having seen the problem encountered in using the old system of voting, the following are recommends.
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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