on line polling

8/8/2019 On Line Polling

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Specific Requirements :On point of view of Public (Voters) :

DESCRIPTION OF STEPS CARRIED OUT :

Voters are when first visit to the site of ONLINEVOTING home page. Then,

There would a link for signup for using the ONLINEVOTING site. Here, he/she should fill up some entries.

Voter has the login id and password . Then, voterclicks on the sign in button and he/she enters thecorrect login id and password. Now he/she isprovided with the one application form with theElection Form Number. He/she must fillup all theinformation required correctly and click on submit.

Now he/she will be provided an voter_id , passwordby Administrator ,after some Admin process on hisgiven email id.

Now ,at the time of voting :voter opens his accountusing login_id and password , then there would besome links like :

View current voting status for anyconstituency area.View profile provided by the Candidates .

Cast vote for your region.See the result after the voting processcompleted

At the time casting vote ,user first select his sate, thedistrict ,then his constituency area. Now ,after


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First_name

Last_name

Email

Age

Security_answer

Preconditions

1. Minimum age of voter should be 18 years.Normal flow of events

1. Filling in the signup form.2. Storing details in the database.

Alternate flow of events 1. A message will appear if any entry of voter

registration form is left blank or not according tocorrect data type.

2. A message will appear if age will be less than 18years saying that you are not eligible for onlinevoting .

Post condition The general information of voter will be stored in

database.

2 . Getting registered for vote : Description The voter will fill the

details in their registration form. These details will later beverified by the field officers. Then data is send to theAdministrator for storing data into database in the tableELECTOR and also Administrator has to send the voter_id andpassword to the voter on his email .


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Preconditions 1. Administratoris alreadylogged in.2. Minimum ageof voter shouldbe 18 years.

Normal flow of events 1. Filling in the registration form.2. Storing details in the database by Administrator.3. Sending voter_id and password to voter.

Alternate flow of events 1.A message will appear if any entry of voterregistration form is left blank or not according tocorrect data type.

2.The administrator will take the action accordingly.

Post condition The general information of voter will be stored in

database.

ELECTOR

Application_no

Name

Father_name

Address

Constituency_id

Occupation

Nationality

Sex

Date of birth

Photo

Voter card id


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Report_id

Vote_casted(y/n)

Preconditions 1. The registration form should be filled up properly.2. The documents should be provided to the field officer

within time.

Normal flow of events 1. Verification of documents by the field officer.

2. Administrator will store the data into database3. Administrator will provide the voter id and password.

Alternate flow of events If the documents have not been submitted withintime, the field officer will not inform theadministrator for further processing.

Post condition The voter will obtain the id and password.


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Submit documents to the field officer

Voters obtain the id and password

Documents incomplete

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4. Vote for their favorite candidate

Description The citizens will be able to view the profiles of all the candidates from their constituencies and vote fortheir favorite candidate. Just after the voting details of the voting performed is saved in the database namedas votes to candidate.

Votes to candidate

Condi_id

Voter_id

Date_time

Party_name


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Party_symbol

city

Precondition 1. The voter should be logged in using his/her voter id

and password.2. A list of candidates from the particular constituency

should be provided.

Normal flow of events 1. The voter will have to log in with their id andpassword to participate in the election.

2. Choose their favorite candidate.3. Cast their valuable vote to the candidate.

Alternate flow of events 1. If he/she enters the wrong id or password an error

message will be displayed.2. The vote may be casted only once.

Post condition To avoid discrepancies, the voter id of the user will beexpired after casting the vote for a limited period of time.

Cast voteSelect a candidate from the

list of candidates


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5. Select a candidate from a list of candidates

Description A list of candidates will be available on thewebsite. The voter is free to select any candidate of their choice from that list and vote for that candidate.And counter of the selected candidate will be increasedautomatically in the database of table named asvote_found.

Vote_found

Cand_id

vote

Precondition 1. Area wise list of candidates should be madeavailable.

2. The candidate name should appear on the list withthe logo of his/her party.

Normal flow of events 1. The voter selects a candidate from the list.

2. The voters cast their vote to their favorite candidate.Alternate flow of events none

Post condition none


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Choose a candidate from the list

Submit

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6. View profile

Description After filling the registrationform, the voter can view their profile if he/she feels so.

Precondition The voter should be logged in.

Normal flow of events The voter will login with the voter lid and password andview the details filled while registering for the onlinevoting system.

Alternate flow none

Post condition check whether the details filled arecorrect or not


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View own details View profile

ON POINT OF VIEW OF ADMINISTRATOR

Responsible for the maintanace of thedatabase , generating results of polling and registeringcandidates for election.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK CARRIED OUT : SEND VOTER ID AND PASSWORD : First and very

important work of the Administrator is to send thevoter_id and password to voter as soon as he gotverified data about the voter by the field officer.

REGISTER CANDIDATES : When the candidatesubmits his/her details via the application for beingcandidates for election .Then after the verification of information given by the candidate Administrator willprovide candi_id and password to the candidate .

PROVIDING LIST OF CANDIDATE : After theregistration of the candidates , Administrator willprovide a list of candidates for each constituencyarea which will be displayed on the ONLINE POLLINGsite.

ADD MANUAL POLLING RESULT : The results of voting will be calculated by the administrator manually andwill be added to the website. The name of the winner fromeach constituency and the city wise, state wise and


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constituency wise percentage voting will be made availableon the website.

USE CASE FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR

1. ACQUIRE DATA :

Description The registration of voters will bevalidated by the field officer and the data of the voterswill be forwarded to the administrator after theverification of documents. Now it is the responsibility of the Administrator to store it into the database in tablenamed as elector.


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Precondition 1. The data should

be validated bythe field officer.

2. The registrationform should beforwarded toadministratoronly after

verification.

Normal flow of events The voter will go to the field officer for verification of documents and the field officer will forward theregistration form of the voter to the administrator.

Alternate flow The documents are not complete and are not verifiedby the field officer then registration will not be done.

Post condition administrator will enter the details of thevoter in the database.

ELECTOR

Application_no

Name

Father_name

Address

Constituency_id

Occupation

Nationality

Sex

Date of birth

Photo

Voter card id


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2 . Providing unique voter_id and password:

DESCRIPTION : The administrator will provide aunique voter id and password to the voter so that

he\she can vote online during elections by logging inthrough their voter id . This generated voter id will besaved in the table verified elector . And also it`sthe duty of the Administrator that he/she will send thethis generated voter id and password to the voter viahis/her email given in his profile. And alsoadministrator made a report about the the verifiedapplication and save it into table report by admin .

Verified elector

Voter id

Password

Report_id

Vote_casted(y/n)

Report byadmin

Condi_idreport

Precondition The details of the voter should be entered in thedatabase.

Normal flow of events The administrator will provide the idand password to the voter.


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Alternate flow none

Post condition voter id provided to every voter should beunique to avoid discrepancies.

Details of the voter

Generate unique id and password

Provide the voter with id

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3 . VERIFY THE DOCUMENTS OF CANDIDATES :

Description Candidates will have tosubmit the documents after registration to theadministrator within the given period of time. Afterverifying the documents, the administrator willvalidate candidate . And he/she will send the condi_idand password to the candidates on their respectiveemail. This candi_id and password is saved in thedatabase table named as nominated candidate

Nominatedcandidate

Condi_id

Password

Reg_id

Login_name

Win(y/n)

Precondition 1. The candidate will have to submit the documents to

Administrator for verification.2. The documents will have to be submitted on time.

Normal flow of events 1. The candidate will submit the documents.2. The administrator will verify these documents.

Alternate flow


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If the candidate fails to submit the documents, thenhe/she will be disqualified for nomination.

Post condition the candidate will get condi_ id and

password only if documents have beenverified.

Provide voter id and password Cancel registration

Documents verifiedDocuments not verified

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4 . PROVIDING LIST OF CONDIDATE:

Description Administratorwill analysis the each of the candidate who issuccessfully registered itself to Administrator. Nowadministrator put these names on home page andalso into the account to each of the voters with help of


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making connectivity with the database e.s to the tablenamed as nominated candidate.

Precondition 1. Candidates should be

registered to theAdministrator.

Normal flow of events 1.The candidate will submit the documents.2.The administrator will verify these documents andthen set them to home page of ONLINE POLLING site.

Alternate flow

If the candidate fails to submit the documents, thenhe/she will be disqualified for nomination.

Post condition the candidate will get posted for thevoting only if he/she will be nominated by the Adminstrator.

5 . ADD ABOUT THE PARTY :

Description These is theone of the most important work perform by theadministrator. Administrator store the all informationgiven by the party which should be approved by theINDIAN POLLING COMMITTEE into the database ,tablenamed as party.

Nominatedcandidate

Condi_id

Password

Reg_id

Login_name

Win(y/n)


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6 . ADD RESULT MANUALLY :

Add manual polling results calculate and display the resultsof voting

Name of use case calculate and display the results of voting

Description The administrator will generate the result of polling by manually calculating the number of votes obtained by each candidate

Precondition 1. The administrator will calculate the results of polling

manually.2. The results should be displayed to the public after

calculation is done.

Normal flow of events

The voters will cast their votes and after that theadministrator will start calculating the number of votesobtained by each candidate. After all the calculationsthe results will be displayed to the public.

Alternate flow - none

Post condition the number of votes obtained by eachcandidate and the total voting percentage from eacharea should also be displayed.


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calculate the votes obtained

display the results

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7. View report :

View all reports view the reports of voting

Name of use case view the reports of voting

Description The reports of voting such as percentage votingdone, no. of votes that different candidates got, thestatistics of all the elections done and reportscontaining details of voters can be viewed by theadministrator.


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Precondition The voting result should have been displayed.

Normal flow of events

After the results are calculated, the reports of voting are viewed by the administrator to drawvarious conclusions.


Post condition none

ON THE POINT OF VIEW OFCANDIDATE

The main and most important function of thecandidate is to register himself/herself on the ONLINEPOLLING site .As candidate is very important part of

the polling system hence here are some work whichmust be perform by the candidate .DESCRIPTION OF WORK CARRIED OUT :

REGISTER ITSELF FOR NOMINATION Thecandidate first of all register itself to Administrator sothat Administrator can consider them for final list of candidate. And after the registration ,he/she will get

the candi_id and password. ADD MORE INFORMATION After registration,using the candi_id and password candidate can addmore and more information about yourself so thatvoter can know more about him/her. That`s wayhe/she can attract more and more voter .


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VIEW RESULTS Candidate can view the result of the election by opening his account .

UPDATE HIS/HER PROFILE Candidate can update

his/her profile using the update profile link in his/heraccount. ONLINE CHAT Candidate can make a online chat

with the voter in order to make aware abouthimself/herself to the voter ,it can be either voicechat or video chat .

USE CASE FOR CANDIDATE

1 . ONLINE REGISTRATION

Register for Nomination

Fill up the Nomination form

Verify the documents

Get id and password

Description The candidate clicks on the signup ascandidate on the home page of the online pollingsite. Then he/she get a form which should be fill up


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by candidate correctly. And the data fill up by thecandidate would be store in the table named asregistered condidate. And the documents aboutthese information must be send to the

Administrator for verification within the timeduration.

Registered candidate

Candi_id

Fullname

Fathername

BloodgroupDateofbirth

Sex

Address

Mobileno

Category

Occupation

Email

Image


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City

State

Partyname

partysymbol

enter details of candidate

Details of candidate are stored

Field blank / incorrectdata type

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Precondition Candidate must have proper document

(verified) for each information which he/she has entered.

Normal flow of events After the fill up the form ,candidate clicks on thesubmit button . then these information store intothe database then it is verified by theAdministrator.



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Post condition after the verification by theAdministrator ,candidate get the candi_id and password ,which isend to candidate via the email.

Provide id and password Reject Nomination form

Documents verifiedDocuments not verified

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//some more improvement//2 . ADD MORE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR SELF

Candidate profile Add details

Description The candidate can add more and moreinformation about yourself for attracting theelectors . For this purpose we give the facility of add text ,mp3 and video on his profile which will be


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visible to the voters when they access to see theprofile of the that candidate.

//add tablePrecondition

1. Candidate must be registered on the online pollingsite.2. Registration of candidate must be verified by the

Administrator.Normal flow of events

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Login profile

Enter candidate id and password

Stop

if wrong id and password

1. Candidate login to the online polling site with the help of

the candi_id and password.2. Candidate can add which he /she want add asinformation.



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Post condition After adding these type of informationhe/she can acquire more and more support from the voters.

3 . VIEW RESULT :

Description The reports of voting such as percentage votingdone, no. of votes that different candidates got, thestatistics of all the elections done and reportscontaining details of voters can be viewed by thecandidate which is manually added by the

administrator.Precondition

The voting result should have been displayed.

Normal flow of events After the results are calculated, the reports of voting are viewed by the administrator to drawvarious conclusions.


Post condition none

4 . UPDATE PROFILE -


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State

state_namestate_population

District

dist_iddist_namedist_populationstate_name

Constituency area

const_idconst_namedist_idpopulation

System user

login_namepassword

first_namelast_nameemailmodifiedcreated

Applicants

application _noname

father_nameaddressconstituency_idoccupationnationalitysex

Person with voter id card

card_no

Verified applicant

voter_idpasswordreport_idvote_casted(y/n)

Offline Voters

voter_id

Person w/o voter id card

ISA

Registered Canditate

reg_idnamesexdateofbirthnationalityoccupationaddressparty_namecostituency_idqualificationthings to dowork_experienceabout me

Nominated Candidates

cand_idreg_idlogin_namewin(y/n)

System_Role

role_idrole_name

System_Role_Task

role_idtask_id

System_Task

task_idtask_name

System_Task_Permission

task_idpermission_id

System_Permission

permission_idpermission_name

Verif ication Report

report_id

ISA

Manual Result

ISA

Result

result_id


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State

state_namestate_population

District

dist_iddist_namedist_populationstate_name

Constituency area

const_idconst_namedist_idpopulation

System user

login_namepasswordfirst_namelast_nameemailmodifiedcreated

Applicantsapplication_nonamefather_nameaddressconstituency_idoccupationnationalitysex

Person with voter id card

card_no

Verified applicant

voter_idpasswordreport_idvote_casted(y/n)

Offline Voters

voter_id

Person w/o voter id card

ISA

Registered Canditate

reg_idnamesexdateofbirthnationalityoccupationaddressparty_namecostituency_idqualificationthings to dowork_experienceabout me

Nominated Candidates

cand_idreg_idlogin_namewin(y/n)

System_Role

role_idrole_name

System_Role_Task

role_idtask_id

System_Task

task_idtask_name

System_Task_Permission

task_idpermission_id

System_Permission

permission _idpermission_name

Verif ication Report

report _id

Report by Field Off icer

application_no.

Report by Administrator

cand_id

ISA

Manual Result

cand_idno of votesparty_namedate of electiondifference of votes

Automatic Re

cand_idno of votesdate of electio

ISA

Result

result_id