01-04-2010, 10:28 PM
Project Scenario Detailed View
Name of the Project Online National Polling
Objective/Vision We live in a democracy and voting is one of our fundamental duties as responsible citizens of the country, but nowhere around the country a 100% people come to vote during the elections in their territory. There have been many reasons for that some of them are:
¢ In the rural areas the influential people keep their men at the polling booths to threaten the common man to vote for them
¢ There are many portions of the country like the North East where there is locally sponsored terrorism, at such places the security conditions are also not very bright, so naturally people feel afraid to come out of their houses and go to vote
¢ Net savvy new generation want hassle free voting system. Also the people in metros want a system thru which they can vote for their territory without traveling.
Keeping in mind these situations and to improve the state of democracy in the country Online Polling System can be thought as a solution, in conjunction with the ongoing current manual voting system.
User of the System A. General Public
B. Candidates
C. Administrators (Election Commission Officers)
D. Field Officers
Functional Requirements i. Online registration for the voter id card which will be verified by the field officers (address and identity validation) and after receiving the field officer's report only the registration will be validated and a voter id will be issued (a photograph will have to be uploaded). You can also think about any other secure method like digital signature.
ii. Those already having a voter id card can register for the online voting system, they will use their voter id as their user name and a separate password will be used for secure authentication.
iii. The election commission will be able to use the site to let the candidates register for their nomination on the site and their officers will validate it. Candidates can run their election campaign through forums and chat-room.
iv. A detailed profile of all the candidates constituency wise will be maintained so that voters can always know about the candidates of their area.
v. Once registered when ever polling is done in any area that areas' people will be able to vote for their favorite candidates.
vi. Devise a mechanism that ensures duplicates voting (online & offline) is not happening.
vii. The system would show the current statistics as well on the web site about how many votes which candidates have got.
viii. Later when the voting ends the administrator can add the manual poling results to the database to calculate the final results which will immediately be flashed on the site.
ix. Facilitate appropriate communication between all stakeholders - Discussion forum/chat/mail/polls
x. Candidates should be able to modify selected portions of their profile after registration for nomination like the promises they make about the things to do after winning the election, their previous works, their experiences and a comprehensive about me, etc.
Non-Functional Requirements i. Secure access of confidential data (userâ„¢s details). SSL can be used.
ii. 24 X 7 availability
iii. Better component design to get better performance at peak time
iv. Flexible service based architecture will be highly desirable for future extension
Optional Features 1. Java based client for User-C & D
2. SMS based inquiry of the voting results
3. Customizable color skins.
User Interface Priorities A. Professional look and feel
B. Use of AJAX (MUST with all registration forms)
C. Browser testing and support for IE, NN, Mozila, and Firefox.
D. Use of Graphical tool like JASPER to show strategic data to admin
E. Reports exportable in .XLS, .PDF or any other desirable format
Reports A. Percentage voting done in different areas, regions, the overall voting percentage.
B. Number of votes that different candidates got based on the areas, regions etc.
C. The statistics of all the elections done so far should be available based on date or year of election.
D. Reports containing details of voters, candidates based on many criterions should be available to administrator.
Other Important issues A. The architecture should be highly scalable and the web site should be tuned for better performance at the peak time.
B. Website should be highly customizable and flexible enough to easily deploy.
Team Size (Maximum) 4
Technologies to be Used UML, Java, J2EE, XML, e-Forms, AJAX, Web 2.0, Web-services, SOA
Tools to be Used ¢ ROSE/RSA / WebSphere Modeler
¢ Eclipse/ RAD / Lotus Forms Designer / Portlet Factory
¢ WebSphere Portal/ WAS/ WAS CE / WPS
¢ DB2 Express “ ˜C™ or DB2 UDB
¢ Tivoli CDP/TSM / Tivoli Directory Server
¢ Linux will be the preferred OS.
Final Deliverable must Include A. Online or offline help to above said users, Application deployment executive and developer
B. Application archive ( .war/.ear ) with source code
C. Database backup and DDL Script
D. Complete Source code
Documents
Name of the Project Online National Polling
Objective/Vision We live in a democracy and voting is one of our fundamental duties as responsible citizens of the country, but nowhere around the country a 100% people come to vote during the elections in their territory. There have been many reasons for that some of them are:
¢ In the rural areas the influential people keep their men at the polling booths to threaten the common man to vote for them
¢ There are many portions of the country like the North East where there is locally sponsored terrorism, at such places the security conditions are also not very bright, so naturally people feel afraid to come out of their houses and go to vote
¢ Net savvy new generation want hassle free voting system. Also the people in metros want a system thru which they can vote for their territory without traveling.
Keeping in mind these situations and to improve the state of democracy in the country Online Polling System can be thought as a solution, in conjunction with the ongoing current manual voting system.
User of the System A. General Public
B. Candidates
C. Administrators (Election Commission Officers)
D. Field Officers
Functional Requirements i. Online registration for the voter id card which will be verified by the field officers (address and identity validation) and after receiving the field officer's report only the registration will be validated and a voter id will be issued (a photograph will have to be uploaded). You can also think about any other secure method like digital signature.
ii. Those already having a voter id card can register for the online voting system, they will use their voter id as their user name and a separate password will be used for secure authentication.
iii. The election commission will be able to use the site to let the candidates register for their nomination on the site and their officers will validate it. Candidates can run their election campaign through forums and chat-room.
iv. A detailed profile of all the candidates constituency wise will be maintained so that voters can always know about the candidates of their area.
v. Once registered when ever polling is done in any area that areas' people will be able to vote for their favorite candidates.
vi. Devise a mechanism that ensures duplicates voting (online & offline) is not happening.
vii. The system would show the current statistics as well on the web site about how many votes which candidates have got.
viii. Later when the voting ends the administrator can add the manual poling results to the database to calculate the final results which will immediately be flashed on the site.
ix. Facilitate appropriate communication between all stakeholders - Discussion forum/chat/mail/polls
x. Candidates should be able to modify selected portions of their profile after registration for nomination like the promises they make about the things to do after winning the election, their previous works, their experiences and a comprehensive about me, etc.
Non-Functional Requirements i. Secure access of confidential data (userâ„¢s details). SSL can be used.
ii. 24 X 7 availability
iii. Better component design to get better performance at peak time
iv. Flexible service based architecture will be highly desirable for future extension
Optional Features 1. Java based client for User-C & D
2. SMS based inquiry of the voting results
3. Customizable color skins.
User Interface Priorities A. Professional look and feel
B. Use of AJAX (MUST with all registration forms)
C. Browser testing and support for IE, NN, Mozila, and Firefox.
D. Use of Graphical tool like JASPER to show strategic data to admin
E. Reports exportable in .XLS, .PDF or any other desirable format
Reports A. Percentage voting done in different areas, regions, the overall voting percentage.
B. Number of votes that different candidates got based on the areas, regions etc.
C. The statistics of all the elections done so far should be available based on date or year of election.
D. Reports containing details of voters, candidates based on many criterions should be available to administrator.
Other Important issues A. The architecture should be highly scalable and the web site should be tuned for better performance at the peak time.
B. Website should be highly customizable and flexible enough to easily deploy.
Team Size (Maximum) 4
Technologies to be Used UML, Java, J2EE, XML, e-Forms, AJAX, Web 2.0, Web-services, SOA
Tools to be Used ¢ ROSE/RSA / WebSphere Modeler
¢ Eclipse/ RAD / Lotus Forms Designer / Portlet Factory
¢ WebSphere Portal/ WAS/ WAS CE / WPS
¢ DB2 Express “ ˜C™ or DB2 UDB
¢ Tivoli CDP/TSM / Tivoli Directory Server
¢ Linux will be the preferred OS.
Final Deliverable must Include A. Online or offline help to above said users, Application deployment executive and developer
B. Application archive ( .war/.ear ) with source code
C. Database backup and DDL Script
D. Complete Source code
Documents
