Static Structure of Smart Card based Cloud Voting System

In a democratic country like India, unbiased voting process represents the people’s mandate for governance. It involves active participation of its primary stakeholders like voter, election commission, political parties and their nominated candidates etc. It is important to keep track of voting trends conducted through multiple phases so as to record people’s mandate, poll swings during this entire process. Nowadays, if voting is conducted only through conventional approach, chances of manipulation by adversaries can be noticed. In this case, advanced technologies like Cloud Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Computing etc. may be blended with conventional voting process to provide an integrated, electronic voting environment. Here the authors have proposed a Cloud Voting System (CVS) using a multivariate electronic card namely, Multipurpose Electronic Card (MEC). This multivariate electronic smart card will deliver various types of electronic services to citizen through public cloud. Citizen (i.e. Voter) will use this electronic interface to cast vote through cloud medium. As a result, massive amount of data will be mounted over the proposed Cloud Voting System, which should be managed in real time scenario without any delay. This research work intends to resolve the latency problem of cloud voting system, which is noticed during fast data transmission between all the stakeholders of cloud voting system i.e. Voter, Election Commission, Presiding Officer, etc. To achieve this objective Cloud Computing and Edge Computing techniques are used in real time scenario. To simulate the real world scenario, it is essential to study the static structure of this proposed cloud voting system. In this paper authors have shown the static structure of cloud voting system using the Class Diagram of Unified Modeling Language (UML).