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Online Voting System

Sayeed Anwar Sheikh , Amaan Syed2, Osama Saleh3, Mohd Aneeque Khan4, Anand Bali5
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Student, Department of Computer Engineering1,2,3,4

Professor, Department of Computer Engineering5
M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Abstract: The project "Online Voting System" aims to simplify voting in any type of election. In India,
presently voting is done either using ballot paper or with EVM machines. In the traditional Voting
approach, Individuals are required to visit voting stations and cast their votes. People from various
locations who don’t have their voting cards are unable to cast their votes. Also, the user's validation is poor
and inappropriate. Further, the conventional voting system involves a lot of manual work which is a time-
consuming process. Therefore, to overcome the drawbacks in the existing system this particular system was
proposed to mark our work much easier and to reduce wastage of time. This work deals with design,
building and testing a online voting system that facilitates user (the person who is eligible for voting),
candidate (Candidate are the users who are going to stand in elections for their respective party), Election
Commission Officer (Election Commission Officer who will verify whether registered user and candidates
are authentic or not) to participate in online voting. This voting system is highly secured and has a very
simple, user-friendly, and reliable design. The proposed application is developed and tested to work on
Ethernet and allow online voting. The user can register by giving his personal details and the image of his
face which gets stored in the database presented at the central side. After the voting date is fixed and the
user gets pop up notifications on his\her android phone via GCM (Google Cloud Messaging). After that the
users open the application then the face authentication is done at server side using the OTP. If the user is a
valid user, then OTP is sent to the user's mail address the user accesses the voting form using their OTP,
casts their vote, clicks the submit button, and then logs out.

Keywords: Online voting system, Voter authentication, Biometric identification, security, AADHAAR ID
based online election

I. INTRODUCTION
The traditional voting methods are very time consuming and are more prone to human errors. The new approach
addresses the drawbacks of the traditional procedures and also improves the performance of voting systems using
Android application. The proposed system eliminates the trouble of voters having to go to voting booths and cast their
votes. Whenever scheduled date notification via short message is received on the user's android device, the user can
cast their vote from anywhere between the scheduled time. The proposed model will authenticate voters in a highly
efficient manner because in order to cast a vote, the user must be registered. With the help of a Smartphone camera, a
proposed model takes a picture of the user's face; if the current face is matched then the authentication is successful;
otherwise, the user will be unable to cast a vote. This new voting approach allows every voter to use their right to vote
from anywhere in the country. We provide a detailed description of the functional and performance characteristics of
the online voting system. Voters can cast their ballots in a highly secure manner from anywhere in the nation without
traveling to the voting stations. As a result, more people vote, this not only boosts the percentage of voters but also
makes voting safe and reduces the threat of violence.
The existing manual Voting system consumes much time as voters have to spend a long time at a polling station to vote
for the right candidate and have to go through the complex process. The election officials must first confirm that the
voter is eligible to cast a vote in that particular booth, and then only they check the voter ID information that is listed on
the booths' voter list. The voter will be able to cast their ballot in that booth once that information is available. All the
work is done by paper ballot so it is very difficult to locate a particular candidate, some voters even cast their votes for
all candidates. To overcome all these problems, we have implemented a web application which is much reliable,
enables voting from anywhere and reduces the time and complexity for the voting process. The objective of this system
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is a replacement of the traditional system that is in existence. In this system the voter username and password will be
sent through SMS. The voter cast their vote and entered the confirmation OTP sent their mobile number. Database
maintained by this system usually contains the Voters information, Candidate information and the final Result of total
votes. Purpose of voting is to provide voters the right to precise their choice over specific issues, laws, citizen
initiatives, constitutional amendments, recalls and/or on their government and political representatives. It has always
been an onerous task for the election commission to conduct free and fair polls in our country, the largest democracy in
the world. A lot of cash has been spent on this to make sure that the elections are rampage free. But, now-a-days it's
become very common for a few forces to enjoy rigging which can eventually cause a result contrary to the particular
verdict given by the people. In order to provide inexpensive solutions to the above, this project will be implemented
with a biometric system.

II. LITERATURE SURVEY

This software is being developed for use by everyone with a simple and self-explanatory GUI. This is software that can
be used by people to vote in an election. All the user must do is login and click on his favourable candidates to register
his vote. The development and testing is done on Ethernet. While the online voting system has been an active area of
research in recent years, the use of insecure Internet, well documented cases of incorrect implementations have been
reported recently. These challenges are to be resolved so that the public should cast their vote in a secure and
convenient way. Proposed online voting system is a voting system by which any Voter can use his/her voting rights
from anywhere in the country [1].
A lot of practices are made to introduce the variations in electronic and online voting systems where different
techniques and methodologies are used. Some of them guarantee confidentiality and security to the system to some
extent, still the voting information and process need to be controlled and managed with advanced systems that will
ensure and guarantee the security and privacy of voters and voter’s information [2].
The Android phones take the image from the user and send it to the web service. The web service stores the image in
the database. The web service executes the face detection algorithm which checks for Face validation [3].
The app has an easy-to-use interface “Login Screen” for voters where they can login with their Google account ids.
Each voter’s data is stored in a database containing their essential information such as Google account id, name, college
roll number and a voting status which stores whether the voter has voted or not. After login, voters have access to the
voting interface “Voting Screen” that allows them to select candidates for the given positions and submit their voting
data securely. Once a voter submits his/her response, then re-submission will not be permissible. The complete voting
procedure is under System Admin's control. Admin has to sign-in with the predefined Gmail id. After successful sign
in, admin gets access to “Admin Screen” where options of enabling/disabling of voting lines and viewing results are
available [4].
Secured Smart Voting System using Aadhaar is an App based Biometric online voting system, which determines
whether a particular person is eligible for casting vote by authenticating his/her finger print. Voter details are retrieved
from the Aadhaar Database and verified. Details about the casted vote are updated to the respective Database. They
Have used Android Studio- It is the most popular, official and open-source platform for creating applications for all
android Platforms and also used My-SQL It is a popular Software for Relational Database management systems and
most importantly Aadhaar API-It enables identification of Aadhaar holders using biometric. This system provides the
best possible solution to problems associated with the Indian voting system [5].
This system consists of an android application for voting. This application contains a block of voter ID for log-in of
voters. Also, an android application contains a camera feature for taking the face image of the user for face detection
and recognition. Local server use for AOVSAD system is an XAMPP server. XAMPP Server is the part of AOVSAD
system where process of face verification takes place. OTP is used to verify the true voter for avoiding the fake votes.
We have designed an Android application which has to be used as a GUI for voting systems. We have used OTP as an
authentication in the application [6].
This is an automated system. It will be a secure system because users can vote only once as the database will not accept
more than one vote per user as all the details of the eligible people will be stored in the database. The Online Voting

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Platform offers clever tickets, brilliant Agenda highlights, vote counting, classification and revealing. These capacities
are programmed and don't be doled Out to faculty in-house [7].
System consists of three phases namely, Registration phase, voting phase and Tallying phase, This System Has been
designed to overcome significant drawbacks in the current voting scheme. They have proposed an internet based voting
system that claims to have several advantages like reduced cost, less overhead, great voter’s turnout [8].
It mainly focuses on the voting system. That will enhance the voting more secure and authenticated in Future. System is
a multi-purpose Platform independent system which can be used by any Organization and government to conduct the
elections. Will work on any operating system be It android or IOS using the QR code and OTP (one Time password
functionality embedded in them) [9].
A unique Aadhaar identity is the center point of our proposed model. It leads to the easier verification of both voters
and candidates. This Aadhaar Identity number is unique for every citizen or voter of India. This Aadhaar Identity
number has been introduced by the government of India and this also recognizes the constituency of the voter. But the
registration of the voter should be completed only after the verification of all documents by the field officer. The officer
also verifies the Aadhaar Identity Number from the main Aadhaar card database. After completing verification, the
registration of the voter should be complete and the voter will get an auto generated e- mail which has all the
information of the voter with the system generated password. The Voter can use this password for login and he/she can
also change the system generated an old password. Voters can also set the verification keys to ensure security. There
should be restricted use of only virtual/on screen keyboard to type password or to change password. Main purpose of
using a virtual/on screen keyboard is to stop capturing passwords, if a voter changes his/her password from some public
place. [10].
From the time it takes to the current technological development, there are online voting systems. That was clarified in
this document. Develop voting plans to make more efficient voting services available with ICT resources than
traditional paper-based voting methods. Voters regard themselves as consumers and it is expected that the government
will make the voting business more convenient. In the past decade, various forms of electronic voting, especially as
additional methods of voting for remote voting, political parties, candidates, the electoral administration, and most
importantly to improve the efficiency and promise of the democratic process to the. The electorate has attracted
considerable attention [11].
Remote systems that allow voters to vote from any computer connected to the internet ‐ typically at home or at work.
As well as via PCs, home internet voting could be through digital TV or even mobile phones or games machines.
Remote internet voting might be used to replace poll site voting entirely, or it might be used only for absentee balloting.
The dramatic impact of the internet has led to discussions about the relation between e‐democracy and online voting.
Some early enthusiasts declared that the internet could replace representative democracy, enabling everyone to vote on
everything and anything at the push of a button [6]. Such visions oversimplify the democratic process. Others have
argued that e‐voting could reduce costs and increase turnout by making voting more convenient [12].
Clarifying the research objectives is the most crucial aspect when conducting a review. Generally, in this study, the
objective is to study usability issues in e-voting of different researchers. The specific objectives are as follows: 1. To
study the metrics used by researchers to evaluate the e-voting systems; 2. To study and evaluate the e-voting devices
and interfaces used in e-voting systems to enhance security and reduce errors; and 3. To determine how the e-voting
organisms can assure the refuge of the voters. Mobile devices, like mobile phones, have been used in some elections as
an e-voting device. It replaces the polling stations. Study by depicts that incomparing mobile voting systems and non-
mobile voting systems, the mobile voting system is slower than the non-mobile devices [13].
This app also ensures that the option is anonymous, when they log in each user is assigned a single and random id,
which cannot have any ties to any user details, so there is no point in specifying that the user voted for that candidate.
The focus is more on knowledge visual illustrations, and no free links are used, the interface is made as easy as possible
with only basic functionality. The Steps to use the device are: 1) Scan your fingerprint and the application can match it
with the info at the server. If the match is booming, the user is mechanically switched to succeeding Voting window. 2)
The ballot screen has all the logos and names of candidates standing for the post, the user simply must press the vote
link next to his/her favorite candidate. If any user does not want to select any candidate for any reason, then he/she may

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directly log out exploiting the logout possibility. 3) Auto-logout feature takes care of the remainder once a vote has
been placed and the main login screen is restored [14].
A lot of practices are made to introduce the variations in electronic and online voting systems where different
techniques and methodologies are used. Some of them guarantees the confidentiality and security to the system at some
extent, still the voting information and process need to be control and manage with advanced systems that will ensures
and guarantees the security and privacy of voters and voter’s information.[15]
A new platform for secure votes and voting is the online voting system. Online voting systems are a web-based voting
system, which transmits votes via a web browser over the internet. Voters from all over the world are eligible to vote
online. Security issues arising from online voting are as follows: In general applications, password protection is high
and phishing attacks are not the focus of the application. Website users are not protected efficiently from phishing. The
key proposal for ensuring a secure online polling protocol to meet privacy, anonymity, eligibility, equity, verification,
and unique online voting safety requirements. To achieve reliability, eligibility, transparency, accuracy, and uniqueness
of the e-vote system, two millionaires couples have created secure online voting for identities based on cryptographic
algorithms. A secure, end-to-end verifiable, Identity-based blind signature Internet voting system: IEEE, newspapers,
2020. This document has amended early vote, elliptical curve cryptography, verifiable end-to-end digital signature,
Internet vote system. Batch venerability. Functional digital signature used by the BLS short signature system to protect
voting against any changes anonymously to issue a blank ballot to voters. Future of voting: Specifications and
feasibility study of verifiable Internet vote from end to end [16].
This software is being developed for use by everyone with a simple and self-explanatory GUI. This is software that can
be used by people to vote in an election. All the user must do is login and click on his favorable candidates to register
his vote. The development and testing is done on Ethernet. While the online voting system has been an active area of
research in recent years, the use of insecure Internet, well documented cases of incorrect implementations have been
reported recently. These challenges are to be resolved so that the public should cast their vote in a secure and
convenient way. Proposed online voting system is a voting system by which any Voter can use his/her voting rights
from anywhere in the country. Online voting system contains: a) Voter’s information in the database. b) Voter’s Names
with ID and password. c) Voter’s vote in a database. d) Calculation of the total number of votes. Various operational
works proposed in the system are: Recording information of the Voter in the database. Checking of information filled
by voters. Discard the false information. Each information is sent to the election commission [17].
To make the voting process very easy and efficient wireless and web technologies are used. The online- voting system
has the possibility of a secure, easy and safe way to capture and count the votes in the election. The author in online
voting system based on Aadhaar id uses Aadhaar id as key of authentication, system is efficient in terms of time and
provides security the system is great improvement over traditional system but the main problem resides in this system is
that of authentication, the authentication technique used is not that efficient as biometric is not used. The paper Secure
Authentication for Online Voting System” presents non traceability and integrity of the votes, smart card has been used
to avoid multiple votes casted by users; biometric is being used for authenticating voters. The author has introduced
smart cards for biometric identification and voter id cards to be used at the time of casting vote. They are using smart
cards and voter id cards at the time of election which is not feasible as anything can happen to those cards thus relying
completely upon cards is not a good idea. And the use of various cards makes the system costly now each and every
voter needs to have these additional cards. Also, it may take a reasonable amount of time to generate so many cards
[18].
All voting system generated priory though have met various features, which a voting system may consists but the main
problem one could find in this system is that little “online” word, despite all techniques they have used to make the
system robust there is always a chance of malpractice when your system is online. In an online voting system powered
by biometric security the author has used personal identification number, thumb impression and secret key altogether
for authentication of the voter. Techniques such as cover image creation, secret key expansion have been used for
securely sending data to servers and then further authenticating voters. This system is quite robust; it takes care of
authentication as well as security of voter’s data stored in the server. The main problem with such systems is that
despite using various security techniques they won’t be able to manage such a huge amount of data that they may
encounter during election periods their system is online and they may face congestion during casting votes [19].

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To offer an online election system, it was necessary to study the current computerized voting system or voting
machines working in different countries. Many developed countries USA, Australia has already adop
adopted an online
Election system [20].

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

Here we are proposing an android application for the voting process that is an Online Voting System through SMS. The
online voting system will manage the voter’s details, Candidate details. The main feature of the project includes voter
information and candidate information; voters can login and use his/her voting rights. The system can manage the
information data very efficiently. The proposed system is more reliable, faster, accurate and easy to han
handle compared to
existing manual systems. It helps to computerize everything and reducing the errors as compare to manual voting
system
This proposed system consists of 3 main modules, which are listed below.
1. ADMINISTRATIVE MODULE: Online Voting is a voting ing system by which any Voter can use his his\her
voting rights from anywhere in India. Online voting for association contains-: Voter’s information in database.
Voter’s Names with ID. Voter’s vote in a database. Calculation of total number of votes Various operaoperational
works that are done in the system are: Recording information of the Voter in Voter database. Checking of
information filled by voters. Discard the false information. Each information is maintained by the admin.
2. NOMINEE CANDIDATE MODULE: The Nominee ee details will be updated by the admin for the post of
board of director and manager. The candidate will submit their own details and the admin maintains all of the
background details of the particular nominee and uploads their information in the correct procedure. In order
to, the user or voter can view the nominee details.
3. USER/VOTER MODULE: The user after their registration only can login for voting. The user will view
nominee details with their image before they can vote. After knowing the nominee ddetails the user can login
for voting. They should vote for the board of directors and the manager in the association. The count will be
taken for each voting. After voting the particular person/user cannot logon to vote again

IV. METHODOLOGY

Fig. 1. Flowchart of the system

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The system development
pment followed the Waterfall software development life-cycle
life cycle to develop a complete system and test
it. Requirements of the proposed system were gathered from various literature reviews on the online voting system. The
designs of data, workflows, user interface
face flow of events were determined by analysing data requirements and end
end-user
workflow. Features expected by administrative users and voters were implemented in Android platform respectively.
Various libraries for implementing hash algorithms were used. Finally, sample data were used to conduct experiments
and end-user testing.

Fig. 2. Architecture of the System

V. CONCLUSION
In conclusion, online voting systems represent a promising solution for enhancing the accessibility and convenience of
the electoral process. The online voting systems can bring about significant advancements in the way elections are
conducted. These systems have the potential to increase voter turnout, provide more accessibility to voters, and reduce
the costs associated with traditional voting methods. Furthermore, the online voting system can enhance the transparency
and accountability of the election process, as it allows for easy verification and audit of the voting results. However, it is
important to ensure that such systems are designed and implemented in a way that guarantees the integrity and
confidentiality of the vote and maintains public trust in the democratic process. With the right measures in place, online
voting systems have the potential to revolutionize the way we conduct elections and ensure that every citizen's voice is
heard.

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