Cloud Based Online Election Management System(COEMS)

Electoral processes have been riddled with controversy, more often than not. The United States presidential election, 2000(remember the Florida reccount?) is just one case in point. Keeping up with the seemingly global tradition, the Pakistan general election, 2013, was subject to rigging accusations and recount demands. It's more than evident now: we need a revised electoral system, one that is equitable and secure. Due to lack of proper administration, several polling stations in Pakistan have witnessed meagre security resulting in a string of rigging attempts, including people trying to cast multiple votes. Moreover, the lack of opportunity to cast votes from another city has led to a dire need of an amended system. Cloud-based e-voting system is a website designed to provide all registered voters a secure and convenient means of voting from any polling station in Pakistan. It makes sure that rigging does not takes place and that multiple votes aren’t casted by one person. The procedure employed by our system is follows. The voter walks into any polling station in Pakistan. Assuming their data is already entered and that they have been registered, they are prompted to enter their Computerized National Identity Card(CNIC) number. Once the CNIC is entered, the system checks if the voter has already casted the vote. If they have, they are not allowed to proceed further. If not, they are asked to verify themselves via thumb impressions after which they may be allowed to vote for both the National and the Provincial Assembly. The voter is presented with the candidates of their constituency. Once they select their candidate of choice, their vote gets saved in the database. As soon as Election Day is over, all the regions send in their data to another server using SSL which displays the result. Hence, the Cloud-based e-voting system caters to the problems mentioned earlier.