Ballot Crusader

ABSTRACT

Ballot Crusader is meant for providing solution for the Election campaign.  Election Campaign means canvassing the party agenda, policies, and structure of the party details to the people. Ballot Crusader is aimed at assisting the Election Commission of India in conducting and monitoring the Indian Elections.

For Canvassing, Political Parties can use Letters, Signboards, TV Commercial adds for a special period of time.  For this type of canvassing they can invest some money.  Normally the political parties submit this information on their investments to the Election Commission.

Every contesting candidate at an election has to maintain the correct account of expenditure incurred/authorized in connection with the election.   The political parties give an explanation for the expenditure for canvassing to the Election Commission.  Whenever elections are proposed, the Election Commission issues guide lines to parties regarding the Campaign Investments.  The political party people can query and check the data hosted by the Election Commission.  The parties should surrender their investment as per the Guidelines.  Election Commission scrutinizes the investments and posts the scrutinized data in to the system for clarifications of parties.

EXISTING SYSTEM

• Existing system is not providing secure registration and profile management of all the members, employees and users details properly.
• This system is not providing on-line Help.
• This system is not providing campaign details.
• This system is not providing campaign item type details.
• This system is not providing political party office details.
• This system is not providing election state wise details.
• This system is not providing party members asset details.
• This system is not providing election announce details.

PROPOSED SYSTEM

The development of this new system contains the following activities, which try to automate the entire process keeping in the view of database integration approach.

• Avoid lack of awareness about political party details.
• Providing   party campaign details.
• Providing campaign item type details.
• This system will provide on line help and search capabilities.
• User friendliness is provided in the application with various controls provided by system rich user interface.
• Providing political party office details.
• Providing election announce details.
• Providing party members asset details.
• Authentication is provided for these application only registered members.

MODULES DESCRIPTION

NUMBER OF MODULES

The system after careful analysis has been identified to be presented with the following modules:

The Modules involved are

1.   Authentication and Security Module

2.   Political parties Module

3.   Member Assets Module

4.   Party Campaign Module

5.   Election Module

6.   Reports Module

Authentication and Security Module

The user is a part main part to select a member. Here the user register with his profile details like name, date of birth, address, contact details like home phone number, office number, and personal number.

Political Parties Module

The user maintain political parties type i.e. nation level, state level, national and state level, mandal level, panchayat level, industrial level, student level etc,..Party description details, party start date, party flag, party symbol, party vision statement, party minion statement, party tagline, party intro video, party registered date, party registration time, registered by, party affiliated unit name, party office details like building name, street name, city name, state name, pin code, email id, web link, party level committee details like committee member name, committee member type(president, vice president) contact no, committee  member photo, committee member status, expected duration, committee member current status, remarks on the committee members and its status.  

 Member Asset Module:

In this module describes the details of Political Party member   name, Party member   abbreviation,, Party member description, party type i.e. national level, state level, national & state level , mandal level, panchayat level, industrial level, student level, party description details, party started date, party activated state and his asset type details like asset type name, asset type abbreviation, asset type description and visual image all these he has to register with some specified details like asset registration id, asset registration date, asset registration  type, committee member details, total asset cost submitted, asset final security done by, remarks by security office, asset.  Registration documentation images, etc,

 Campaign Module:

In this module describes the details of Political Party member   name, Party member   abbreviation,, Party member description, party type i.e. national level, state level, national & state level , mandal level, panchayat level, industrial level, student level, party description details, party started date, party activated state. The employee details who work in party campaign employee name, date of birth, date of registration, address, contact details, designation details, salary profile details. Election announces details, announce date, election incharge details and remark on election and campaign details like  campaign name, campaign type, campaign type item name, campaign type item description, campaign cost details, campaign cost item type, cost value, campaign cost value security document images, campaign value date, cost value remarks.

Elections Module

General Elections and Bye election are to be conducted according to the situation. So election commission has to schedule elections state wise. In this module all these scheduling is done. In case of Bye elections Constituency wise elections are also to be scheduled properly.

Reports Module

Generally all users of the system are interested   in generating various reports. This module is concerned in generating the reports of their choice.

Software Requirements:

Operating System                :               Windows XP/2003 or Linux

User Interface                    :               HTML, CSS

Client-side Scripting             :               JavaScript

Programming Language                :               Java

Web Applications                 :               JDBC, Servlets, JSP

IDE/Workbench                   :               MyEclipse6.0

Database                           :               Oracle10g

Server Deployment              :               Tomcat 5.x

Hardware Requirements:

Processor                           :               Pentium IV

Hard Disk                           :               40GB

RAM                                  :               512MB or more