Online Election System A Proposed System for Pakistan
Abstract : The Election Schedule for the conduct of General Elections as well as for the by-elections, as the case may be, is decided by the Chief Election Commissioner in Pakistan. The current system is being operated manually. Votes are polled manually. All the record of voters, candidates, polling stations, regions detail and parties’ information are stored manually. Results are calculated manually. All records are stored in registers and files. There is a big problem for election commission to manage the records. Our proposed cost effective Online Voting system will replace the manual record keeping system of voters, candidates; duty staff by polling the votes by a computerize system, which will reduce the chances of error occurrence, while counting, minimize time being consumed during counting, increase security of votes being polled. No chances of vote’s rejection and easy management of records.
? A huge number of ballot papers are printed and distributed on polling stations and this cost billions; not acceptable for a developing state like Pakistan.
? Many of the votes are not counted due to slight mistake by the voter, e.g. Voter left Thumb impression in between two check boxes etc.
? Presiding Officers count the ballot papers, but human counting is usually sluggish and has chances of error as well; which means an ultimate disaster ahead in the process of Democracy.
? Increasing number of polling booths raises the number of staff required. Polling staff is appointed away from the area where they belong to, thus many of the people could not cast their vote.
? Digging deep into the problem the root cause is the ill mannered activities people do in the elections.
? Breaking down the problems more deeply into the security concerns we found that the present day system being followed by the Government of Pakistan is not secure and hence people can misuse the facilities.
? We limit our research to social and technical aspects of the problems in the problem discussion.
? Along with these issues one the main emergence of e – government is e – democracy specifically eVoting.
• System will replace the manual record keeping system by computerize system. System will reduce the chances of error occurrence, while calculation.
• System will minimize time being consumed. System will increase security of votes.
• System will not allow chance of rejection of vote. System will do easy management of records.
• System wills easy searching of desire record.
• System will do online polling.
• To know easily whether the voter is registered or not. High and reliable security can be achieved.
? E-voting combines technology with the democratic process, in order to make voting more efficient and convenient for voters.
? Time is very important factor for measuring the efficiency of the system.
? This form of design would be very helpful to the system developers and would help in engineering the system in a consistent and efficient manner.
? How to secure eVoting; may it be electronics machines being used at polling stations, or getting citizen cast their votes through specifically driven websites for the sake of election.
? With respect to industry standards, structured as well as object oriented approach was used to capture the system requirements and design.
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