I-Voting on Cloud Framework

Abstract

With large scale automation gathering pace among various branches and services, the paper proposes an Online Voting System built on a Cloud Framework which combines the fairness and privacy of the existing system which uses Electronic Voting Machines, with the transparency and pliability of the new-age technology by using Cloud Computing Framework wherein a community cloud can secure the required biometrics and couple it with the web framework and mobile application to ensure a free-and-fair elections with the voting right at the voters fingertip. This paper proposes a Cloud Framework which can implement this Internet-Voting (I-Voting) by employing Aadhar UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) secured by encryption techniques which can be deployed by a software or an application where the user can validate his biometrics and vote in quick-time, which can then be encrypted and stored in a database from where the results can be accessed quickly saving time and resources. The proposed application combines Cloud Framework, Data Security and Biometric Verification along with what advantages it offers against the existing systems.