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ONLINE NATIONAL POLLING 2010

THE GREAT MIND CHALLENGE 2010

ONLINE NATIONAL POLLING

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION

TEAM

NAME

TEAM MEMBERS

HARSHIT SOMPURA

PALLAVI MODANI

ANKIT SHARMA

RAHUL GOYAL

PROJECT MENTOR

Mr. HARPREET GILL

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INDEX

1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….

1.1 Purpose……………………………………………………………………………………

1.2 scope…………………………………………………………………………………

1.3 definitions, acronyms, abbreviations…………………………………….

1.4 technologies…………………………………………………………………

1.5 overview…………………………………………………………………………..

2. overall description…………………………………………………………………

2.1 product’s perspective…………………………………………………………………

2.2 software interface…………………………………………………………………

2.3 hardware interface…………………………………………………………………

2.4 communication interface……………………………………………………

2.5 product function…………………………………………………………………

2.5.1 functional requirements………………………………………………

2.5.2 non-functional requirements…………………………………

2.6 user characteristics…………………………………………………………………

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2.7 constraints…………………………………………………………………

2.8 assumptions and dependencies………………………………………………

3. specific requirements…………………………………………………………………

3.1 use case report…………………………………………………………………

3.2 E-R diagram…………………………………………………………………

3.3 Data flow diagram…………………………………………………………………

3.4 Class diagram…………………………………………………………………

3.5 Object diagram…………………………………………………………………

3.6 Use case diagram…………………………………………………………………

3.7 Sequence diagram…………………………………………………………………

3.8 Collaboration diagram………………………………………………………

3.9 Activity diagram…………………………………………………………………

3.10 Supplementary requirements……………………………………………

3.10.1 power backup…………………………………………………………………

3.10.2 proper maintenance…………………………………………………

3.10.3 network availability and bandwidth issues…………

3.10.4 server should be highly responsive………………………………

FAQ’s………………………………………………………………………………………

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 PURPOSE

The purpose of this project is to build an online polling system so that more and more

voters are able to cast their votes in case they are not able to reach the Polling Stations.

This system is solely designed for those who are far away from their polling zone still they

can vote from that place. It can also help people cast their vote online even when they are

not in the country.

1.2 SCOPE

We live in a democracy and voting is one of our fundamental duties as responsible citizens

of the country, but nowhere around the country a 100% people come to vote during the

elections in their territory. There have been many reasons for that some of them are:

• In the rural areas the influential people keep their men at the polling booths to threaten

the common man to vote for them.

• There are many portions of the country like the North East where there is locally

sponsored terrorism, at such places the security conditions are also not very bright, so

naturally people feel afraid to come out of their houses and go to vote.

• Net savvy new generation want hassle free voting system. Also the people in metros want

a system through which they can vote for their territory without traveling.

Keeping in mind these situations and to improve the state of democracy in the country

Online Polling System can be thought as a solution, in conjunction with the ongoing current

manual voting system.

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1.3 DEFINITIONS, ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS

SLA: SLA is a formal written agreement made between two parties. The service provider

and the service recipient. It defines the term of engagement the fundamental rules that will

govern the relationship.

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language is a markup language used to design static web pages.

EJB: Enterprise Java Beans.

J2EE: Java 2 Enterprise Edition is a programming platform—part of the Java platform—for

developing and running distributed multitier architecture Java applications, based largely

on modular software components running on an application server.

DB2: DB2 Database is the database management system that delivers a flexible and cost

effective database platform to build robust on demand business applications.

WAS: Web sphere application server is an application server that runs business

applications and supports the J2EE and web services standards.

WSAD : Web sphere studio application developer is a toolkit which is designed for the

creation of more complex projects, providing fully dynamic web application utilizing EJB’s.

This consist of EJB tools, CMP, data mapping tools & a universal test client that is designed

to aid testing of EJB’s.

HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a transaction oriented client/server protocol

between web browser & a Web Server.

HTTPS: Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a HTTP over SSL (secure socket layer).

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, the suite of communication

protocols used to connect hosts on the Internet. TCP/IP uses several protocols, the two

main ones being TCP and IP.

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1.4 TECHNOLOGIES

J2EE: Application Architecture

JSP: java server programming

DB2-Express C: Database Architecture

RAD(Rational application developer): IDE (Integrated Development Environment)

Server: WAS

1.5 OVERVIEW

The SRS will include two sections:

Overall Description will describe major components of the system, interconnection and

external interfaces.

Specific Requirements will describe the functions of actors, their role in the system and

constraints.

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2. OVERALL DESCRIPTION

2.1 PRODUCT’S PERSPECTIVE

A clean interface is built which is easy to understand and work on so that a person having

little knowledge in field of computers can also work easily and cast his vote.

The web pages (XHTML/JSP are present to provide the user interface on system

client side. Communication between customer and server is provided through HTP/HTTPS

protocols.

The Client Software is to provide the user unterface on system user client side aand

for this TCP/IP protocol are used.

On the server side web servar is for EJB and database server is for stroing the information.

HTTP/HTTPS

TCP/IP

DB2

HTML

Client

(customer)

Client

Software

(System

user)

WAS

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2.2 SOFTWARE INTERFACE

Client on internet : Web Browser, Operating System(any)

Cliebt on Intranet : Client Software, Web Browser, Operating System(any)

Data Base Server : DB2 Express-C, Operating System(any)

Development End : WASD (J2EE, JAVA, Servlet, HTML), DB2, OS(Windows), Web Server.

2.3 HARDWARE INTERFACE

CLIENT SIDE

Software Processor RAM(Minimum Disk Space

Internet Explorer

6.0 (or Higher)

Pentium III at 1GHz 128 MB 100 MB

SERVER SIDE

WAS Pentium III at 1

GHz

512 MB 1 GB

DB2 Express-C Pentium III at 1

GHz

512 MB 1 GB

2.4 COMMUNICATION INTERFACE

It uses HTTP/HTTPS protocol on client side.

Firewall security is required for security the server.

TCP/IP protocol is the basic need for the client side.

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2.5 PRODUCT FUNCTION

2.5.1 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS (OR PRIMARY FUNCTIONS)

VOTING

The main task of online polling is to design a software which enables the general

public of the country to exercise their right to vote online. An electoral roll, list of all eligible

citizen who are entitled to cast their vote in an election , is displayed on the HTML pages

and also the party manifestos.

POLLING INFORMATION

All the information regarding the polling and the candidate of the local is given directly to

the people.

Mobility of voting: The voter can now vote from anywhere in the world for his locate. This

also saves the time and money of the consented government.

COUNTING OF VOTES

The votes are directly stored in the database which are further be received by the authority

or administrators by just passing on query into the database with authentication.

2.5.2 NONFUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS (OR SECONDARY FUNCTIONS):

MORE EASY AND QUICK MANAGEMENT:

The data is stored at a single place and security firewall can be provided so that its

management is easy.

GENERAL AWARENESS

The project also spread the general awareness among the people and tells them why they

MUST exercise their vote in the welfare of the country. This is done by the means of display

videos, spreading information about the causes and effect of the people practicing their

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votes, It also aware the general public on what measures they should take while choosing a

candidate to be their representative in the legislative assembly.

SECURITY

The data including the candidate list and voter registration are kept safe by efficient

management of data provided by DB2 Express-C.

AVAILABLITY

The project has been so designed that it provides the 24x7 availability to the users.

2.6 USER CHARACTERSTICS

The user should be aware of the normal internet usage and comfortable with the browser

interface. He should be aware of the general voting trend of the country. The user need not

know about the internal structure of the Java environment and working.

2.7 CONSTRAINTS

Elections can exist on more than one day.

GUI is only in English.

Login and password is used for identification of voters, polling officers, and there is

no facility for guest.

This system must only be used for a state-wide election or smaller.

All poll workers must be trained on the systems in which they will assist.

All devices must be tamper evident.

A random sampling of devices must be put through additional pre & post election

testing.

Limited to HTTP/HTTPS.

All devices must undergo a full re-installation and product upgrade between

elections.

All devices must be secured while in transit, storage, and in use.

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2.8 ASSUMPTIONS AND DEPENDENCIES

The voting is done through the country on a single day.

All the candidates have their respective data on portals of their parties which

can be kinked with the main electronic voting sites.

Role of every user predefined and no other extensions can be done without the

permission of election commissioner and administrator both.

User ID and password are provided with Voter-Id which can further be modified.

Important: During the making of this project it has been assumed that the city is not

been divided into different wards. In fact the whole city can be treated as a ward and

all the candidates of particular city compete under one ward only. The voters also cast

their votes under one ward only.

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3. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

3.1 USE-CASE REPORTS

A) ADMINISTRATOR

Responsible for providing all the information of candidates who have applied for the

polling and voter registration.

I) PROFILE OF CANDIDATES

All the candidates have to submit their information to the administrator so that it can be

displayed on the site.

II) PROVIDING THE LIST OF CANDIDATES

He will provide the list of all the candidates at the local as well as national level.

NAME OF USE-CASE:- PROFILE OF CANDIDATES

DESCRIPTION

Administrator inserts the candidate’s profile data in the database only after verification.

After then only the profile is displayed on the portal.

PRECONDITIONS

Data is verified by the Administrator.

Administrator is logged in already.

NORMAL FLOW OF EVENTS:

CANDIDATE

INFORMATION DATABASE

ADMINISTRATOR

PROFILE INCLUDES

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Administrator clicks on to the link of view profiles on his home page.

Data is already provided by the candidate and the administrator verifies it.

Query is submitted and data is saved on database.

B) FIELD OFFICERS

All the responsibility of maintaining the connection and availability of the system is taken

by this person. He is also responsible for voter registration done on the day of polling.

I) MANAGING CONNECTIVITY AND AVAILABILITY OF THE SYSTEM

All the connectivity and system availability is maintained while polling process continues.

II) ON-SPOT VOTER REGISTRATION

Voters who were not able to register themselves beforehand, the field officers do their

registration thereby itself on the day of polling.

NAME OF CASE USED:- AUTHENTICATE NEW VOTERS

DESCRIPTION

All newly registered voters are given a unique id by the Administrator which is useful for

them while voting because they are registered in database with this id.

PRECONDITIONS

All the formalities are done such as Voter Id-card.

Voters are verified.

NORMAL FLOW OF EVENT

VOTER’S

INFORMATION DATABASE FIELD

OFFICER

PROFILE INCLUDES

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Data verified by election commission.

Data sent to Administrator.

Voter’s information is verified by the administrator and stored in database and

given a unique id for login.

C) CANDIDATES

The candidates who are competing for elections in their respective constituencies are

provided with a registration form. After filling the form and getting it verified by the

Administrator, the candidates are eligible for voting.

I) PROVIDE PROFILE INFORMATION

The candidate provides the information regarding his/her qualification, profession, party

which he wants to join, etc by filling the registration form.

NAME OF CASE USED:- PROVIDE PROFILE INFORMATION

DESCRIPTION

All the candidates wishing to contest elections have to provide their detailed information

on the form upload on the site. This information is then verified by the Administrator, only

after which the candidate can fight elections. The candidate is also given a unique id by the

Administrator which can be used by them for updating profile information.

PRECONDITIONS

CANDIDATE’S

INFORMATION DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR’

S VERIFICATION

PROFILE INCLUDES

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All the formalities are done such as age verification, medical checkup, etc.

Candidates are verified.

NORMAL FLOW OF EVENT

Profile details provided by the candidate.

Data sent to Administrator.

Candidate’s information is verified by the administrator and only after successful

verification , they are given a unique Id for login.

D) VOTERS

The candidates who are competing for elections in their respective constituencies are

provided with a registration form. After filling the form and getting it verified by the

Administrator, the candidates are eligible for voting.

I) PROVIDE PROFILE INFORMATION

The candidate provides the information regarding his/her qualification, profession, party

which he wants to join, etc by filling the registration form.

II) CAST THEIR VOTES

The voters practice their right to vote by logging into their account. After login the

candidate list is displayed and the voter can chose which candidate to vote.

III) GETTING INFORMATION ABOUT PARTY MANIFESTOS AND CANDIDATE

PROFILES:

Party manifestos are already stored in database and the voter is displayed this on his

homepage. He can also view the profiles of all the candidates who are contesting for

elections.

NAME OF CASE USED:- PROVIDE PROFILE INFORMATION

VOTER’S

INFORMATION DATABASE FIELD OFFICER’S

VERIFICATION

PROFILE INCLUDES

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DESCRIPTION

All the voters wishing to cast their vote have to provide their detailed information on the

form uploaded on the site. This information is then verified by the Administrator, only after

which the voter can vote. The voter is also given a unique id by the Administrator which

can be used by them for login and viewing party manifestos and candidate profiles.

PRECONDITIONS

All the formalities are done such as age verification, medical checkup, etc.

Voters are verified.

NORMAL FLOW OF EVENT

Information details provided by the voters.

Data sent to Administrator.

Voter’s information is verified by the administrator and only after successful

verification, they are given a unique Id for login.

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3.2 E-R DIAGRAM:

In software engineering, an entity-relationship model (ERM) is an abstract and

conceptual representation of data. Entity-relationship modeling is a database modeling

method, used to produce a type of conceptual schema or semantic data model of a system,

often a relational database, and its requirements in a top-down fashion. Diagrams created

by this process are called entity-relationship diagrams, ER diagrams, or ERDs.

The first stage of information system design uses these models during the requirements

analysis to describe information needs or the type of information that is to be stored in a

database. The data modeling technique can be used to describe any ontology (i.e. an

overview and classifications of used terms and their relationships) for a certain area of

interest. In the case of the design of an information system that is based on a database, the

conceptual data model is, at a later stage (usually called logical design), mapped to a logical

data model, such as the relational model; this in turn is mapped to a physical model during

physical design. Note that sometimes, both of these phases are referred to as "physical

design".

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Candidate

s

Candidates Id

Contact Details

Experience

Party Details

Vote

Casted

Upload

Correct

Details

General Public

Admin

Field Officer

Gets Data

And

validates it

Validates

The Data

Gets Data

From Form

Area Name

Name

Voter Id

Contact

Details

Domicile

Address

Area Id

Id

Name

Phone No. Age

Reg. form

Name

Email Id.

Email id

Name

Phone No.

Age

Id

Verificatio

n

Verification

Row

State

City Area

General Details

General Details

Address

Election Commission

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3.3 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM

A data flow diagram (DFD) is a graphical representation of the "flow" of data through an

information system. DFDs can also be used for the visualization of data processing

(structured design).

LEVEL 0 (DATA FLOW DIAGRAM)

It is common practice to draw a context-level data flow diagram first, which shows the

interaction between the system and external agents which act as data sources and data

sinks.

LEVEL 1

This level (level 1) shows all processes at the first level of numbering, data stores, external

entities and the data flows between them. The purpose of this level is to show the major

and high-level processes of the system and their interrelation.

LEVEL 2

This level is a decomposition of a process shown in a level-1 diagram, as such there should

be a level-2 diagram for each and every process shown in a level-1 diagram.

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CASTE VOTE

REQUEST FOR REGISTRATION

CONFIRMATION FOR REGISTRATION CONFIRM REGISTRATION

GIVE RESULT

GENERATE RESULT REQUEST FOR

REGISTRATION MANAGES VOTER’S AND CANDIDATE’S DATA PROFILE

CASTE VOTE

CANDIDATES

ADMINISTRATOR

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LEVEL ‘0’ DFD

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ONLINE

REGISTRATION

VERIFICATION AND MANAGE

VOTERS

CONFIRM REGISTRATION

MANAGE DETAILS

CASTE VOTE CONTROL AND DISPLAY DETAIL PROFILE REQUEST FOR SEND REGISTRATION DETAILS GIVE RESULTS

GENERATE VOTER ID AND PASSWORD AFTER VERIFICATION

RESULT GENERATION GENERATION CANDIDATES CASTE VOTE UPDATE RECORD

ENTER DETAILS AND MODIFY

VERIFICATION

`

POLLING

ADMINISTRATOR

VOTERS FIELD OFFICER

CANDIDATE

LEVEL ‘1’ DFD

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ONLINE

REGISTRATION

VALIDATION

LEVEL ‘2’ DFD

CONFIRM REGISTRATION

GENERATE ID

AND PASSWORD REQUEST FOR REG COLLECT VOTES

VERIFIES DATA

VERIFY ENTER VOTER’S DETAILS VOTER

CASTE VOTE DETAILS VERIFICATION UPDATES

CANDIDATE

ENTER DETAILS

MODIFY

COUNTS VOTE AND GENERATES RESULT GENERATES RESULT

POLLING

FIELD OFFICER

VOTERS

ADMINISTRATOR

CANDIDATE

RESULT

GENERATION

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3.4 CLASS DIAGRAM:

The class diagram is the main building block in object oriented modeling. It is used both for

general conceptual modeling of the systematic of the application, and for detailed modeling

translating the models into programming code. The classes in a class diagram represent

both the main objects and or interactions in the application and the objects to be

programmed.

CANDIDATE

C_id C_name C_dob C_party C_address C_experience Party() Vote() Entrerdt()

FIELD OFFICER F_id F_name F_address F_area F_address() Validation() Update()

VOTER

V_id V_password V_name V_domicile V_dob V_num Vote() Register()

PARTY

P_no P_name P_symbol No_of_candidate()

VOTE Voter_id C_id

ADMINISTRATOR

A_id A_name Verify() Update() Generate_result() Instruct() Generate_id()

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3.5 OBJECT DIAGRAM:

An object diagram in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a diagram that shows a

complete or partial view of the structure of a modeled system at a specific time. An Object

diagram focuses on some particular set of object instances and attributes, and the links

between the instance.

3.6 USE CASE DIAGRAM

A use case diagram in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a type of behavioral

diagram. Its purpose is to present a graphical overview of the functionality provided by

system in terms of factors, their goals ( represented as use cases), and dependencies

between those use cases.

Field officer REGISTRATION &

Verify

vote

Provide

profile &

updation

candidate

vote

View

profile

voter

Voter info.

Display

result

Administrator

Generate

voter id &

password

Check

system

Collect votes

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ADMINISTRATOR (ELECTION COMMISSION OFFICERS)

He is responsible for providing all the information of candidates who have applied for

the polling.

Register candidates

Registration of new candidates is dine on the site.

Provide information of candidates

All the candidates have to submit their information to the administrator so that

it can be shown onto the site to the general public of the country.

Provide the list of candidates

Provides the list of all candidates in the local as well as national level.

Display result

Add the polling result to the database to calculate the final result to display on

the site immediately.

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1. FIELD OFFICERS

All the responsibility of maintain the connection and availability of the

system is taken by this entity. Online registration for the voters which will be

verified by the field officers. All new voters are been authenticated and added to

voter list after they are verified.

2. GENERAL PUBLIC

Provide information for voter registration.

Give vote.

3. CANDIDATES

Provide information registration

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3.7 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM:

A sequence diagram shows, as parallel vertical lines (lifelines), different processes or

objects that live simultaneously, and, as horizontal arrows, the messages exchanged

between them, in the order in which they occur.

Request for Registration

Verify Registration

Modify database

Request for Registration

Verify Registration Instruct

Generate voter id

Vote

Calculate no. of votes

Show Result

Show Result

3.8 COLLABORATION DIAGRAM:

VOTER FIELD OFFICER

OFFOFFICER

OOFFICER

ADMINISTRATOR CANDIDATE

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A Collaboration diagram shows the dynamic interaction of the objects in a system. A

distinguishing feature of a Collaboration diagram is that it shows the objects and their

association with other objects in the system apart from how they interact with each other.

3.9 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM

Activity diagrams are graphical representations of workflows of stepwise activities and

actions with support for choice, iteration and concurrency.[1] In the Unified Modeling

Language, activity diagrams can be used to describe the business and operational step-by-

step workflows of components in a system.

CANDIDATE

ADMINISTRATOR AREA OFFICER

VOTER

1. send

application

for

registration

Verify 2.

the

registration 3. send

request for

registration

4. instruct

5. verify the

registration

6. give votes

7. calculation is performed

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3.10 SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS

3.10.1 POWER BACKUP

Whenever the polling is taking place the system should not face any breakdown in the

supply of power otherwise data could be lost or connection could be broken.

3.10.2 PROPER MAINTENANCE

While in operation if any error occurs when there must be a technical person to solve it, he

can be any one of polling agents.

3.10.3 NETWORK AVAILABILITY AND BANDWIDTH ISSUE

High speed network connection is required so that the data can travel swiftly.

3.10.4 SERVER SHOULD BE HIGHLY RESPONSIVE

When polling happens in any country on a single day then it would give a lot of stress on to

the server, the server should be configured in a manner so that it can bear that stress.

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FAQS: YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW THIS

1.WHY SHOULD YOU VOTE?

India is the largest democracy in the world. The right to vote and more importantly the

exercise of franchise by the eligible citizens is at the heart of every democracy. We, the

people, through this exercise of our right to vote have the ultimate power to shape the

destiny of country by electing our representatives who run the Government and take

decisions for the growth, development and benefit of all the citizens.

2 .WHO CAN VOTE?

All citizens of India who are 18 years of age as on 1st January of the year for which the electoral roll

is prepared are entitled to be registered as a voter in the constituency where he or she ordinarily

resides. Only persons who are of unsound mind and have been declared so by a competent court or

disqualified due to ‘Corrupt Practices’ or offences relating to elections are not entitled to be

registered in the electoral rolls.

3 .WHAT IS THE DISCLOSURE BY CANDIDATES?

3.1 Recently the Election Commission of India has made it mandatory consequent upon a

Judgement of Hon’ble supreme court that all candidates must file an affidavit along with

their nomination form with details such as:-

i. his/her criminal antecedents,

ii. his/her assets and liabilities and those of his/her spouse and dependents, and

iii. his/her educational background.

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This has been done with a view that every citizen has a right to know about the candidates

contesting an election and make an informed choice.

3.2 The Election Commission has directed all Returning Officers to display the copies of

nomination papers and accompanying affidavits received during any day on his notice

board immediately on receipt and make copies of these for distribution to the press and

any members of public who want this information, free of cost. Any citizen of the country

can obtain copies of the nomination form and the affidavit filed by any candidate from the

Returning Officer and it shall not be refused. As a voter you have every right to seek this

information and get it.

3.3 Above measures help the electors make an informed choice about the candidate they

are going to vote for.