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Transforming Election Polling from Electronic Voting to Cloud as a Software Service in India

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Today election polls have been re-engineered using electronic voting system in India. The system does come with several drawbacks and huge expenses including cost for security of the machine, transport, etc. In-fact customizing the electronic firmware to booth requirements is still a manual procedure and takes more effort and cost than modifying the same in a software application. In this paper we propose a model to transform the electronic polling to a cloud polling system to bring less cost, scalability, save time, easier modification, centralized control, speedy results, voter’s convenience and running a smooth poll. We also discuss the issues and possible solutions in moving towards the cloud polling system.

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  1. School of Management and Computer Applications, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    P. Vidhya

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  1. , Department of Computer Science, Jackson State University, John R. Lynch Street 1400, Jackson, 39217, USA

    Natarajan Meghanathan

  2. Wireilla Net Solutions PTY Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

    Dhinaharan Nagamalai

  3. Department of Computer Science & Eng., University of Calcutta, Calcutta, 700 073, India

    Nabendu Chaki

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Vidhya, P. (2013). Transforming Election Polling from Electronic Voting to Cloud as a Software Service in India. In: Meghanathan, N., Nagamalai, D., Chaki, N. (eds) Advances in Computing and Information Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 177. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31552-7_24

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