E voting Initiative in India

Presented by – Rationalist from NITK, Surathkal

Aditya Pachori, Doing MBA from NITK Worked In Infosys for 2 years, Native Gwalior M.P.

Suraj Baliga P, Doing MBA from NITK Worked In Glow Touch Technologies, for 1 year Native Mangalore, Karnataka

Tanveer Kaur, Doing MBA from NITK Worked in TCS for 3 years, Native Jamshedpur, Jharkhand

Debolina Roy, Doing MBA from NITK Worked in TCS for 3 years, Native Kolkata, WB

Anubhav Grover, Doing MBA from NITK Fresher, Native Chandigarh

E Voting as Complementary system 2

Average voting in India – 55% (approx) Reasons to not vote


ASKING REMAINING 40% TO VOTE

Based on survey conducted by team in and around NITK with student, professors, working professionals etc

Results – 95% not voted due to one or other reason in last election

All have voter ids 98% will ready to vote online if it takes 5 mins

of their time from their current place


70% of population below 35years age 34% below 25 years age All other part of population not voting due to

some reasons


Computer proficiency

Internet penetration increasing in India 6.2 million active users in Mumbai Population – 18.41 million Initial implementation only in Metros




Unique voting id should not be disclosed to anyone

Doing this will be punishable offense











Bandwidth Multi Core Server’s Computation Requirements ( External) Resource Handling User Interface Design

20E Voting as Complementary system

Flow of Contents Key Parameters SLA parameters Summary of Key Infrastructure of Election

Process Server Infrastructure details Storage Infrastructure details Network & Security Infrastructure details


# AttributeCurrent

Parameters

1 Total Election Branches 3000 +

2 Total users 20,000+

3 Total Customers 2 crores

4 Total Unique ID Accounts 3 crores

5 Total Daily OLTP transactions Election Peak time 5555 per second

6 Total Daily votes during batch processing (EOD) 50-60 lakhs


Current SLA levels

Cost savings of over INR 200 crores from business process reengineering for process overview

Increase in voters by 40%

Customer voting increased by 2X based on customer surveys

Uptime: Measured Manually

Utilization: 50% to 60% each

TPS: Average 120 VPS (Range between 80 to 130 VPS)

Uptime: Measured ManuallyUtilization: approx 93%

EOM/EOQ: 6 to 7 hours normal operations & 10 to12 hours (during high Bandwidth applications)

Cost savings from business process reengineering

Currently there are no documented agreements with key vendor for designing and meeting the SLA

Industry Standards

Uptime: 99.99% with Oracle RAC

Utilization: 35% each (for a two node deployment)

VPS: 250 to 350 for ~3000 branch users & 20,000 users

Uptime: 99.99%Utilization: 80% to 90%

EOD: < 4 hoursEOM: < 6 hoursEOQ: < 8 hours

RPO – 0 min

RTO – 15 min to 30 min


•FCC: 3.4.9, FCR: 6.0

Voting Application Version

•Oracle 9i with Oracle RAC

Database version

•Centralized Servers are on Intel based IBM x 3850 x5 with Windows 2008 server OS

•Application Servers are on IBM x460 with Windows 2003 server OS

•Database Servers (DC/DRC): IBM p595 (Active-Active with Oracle RAC) having five instances (FCC, FCR, CBSBRN, IB, RTGS) of databases within the single LPAR

Vote Casting Servers

•Enterprise Storage IBM DS8300 at DC, DRC and NLS

•SAN Switch: IBM B40, B32 & B16

Vote Bank Storage

•IBM TS3584, LTO 5

CBS tape library

•Nexus Switch, Cisco 7206 router

Network & Security components


DR SiteCluster

Primary Site

Prod Cluster

DR Site

DS8300

Oracle DG Replication

FCIP Connectivity900 Mbps

Sync Replicationof Database

FC Fabric FC Fabric FC Fabric

Near Site

DS8300DS8300


S N Remarks

Primary Datacenter

1 DC Base DS8100

2 DC Expansion -1

3 DS8300+ DC Expansion -2

4 DC Expansion -3

5 DC expansion-4

Disaster Recovery Site

1 DR Base DS8100

2 DR Expansion -1

3 DS8300 + DR Expansion -2

4 DR Expansion -3

5 DC expansion-4

Near Site

1 DS8100 Base

2 DS Expansion -1

3 DS8300+ DS Expansion -2

Disk Slot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Main Box 300 73 73 73 Nill Nill Nill Nill

Main Box 300 73 73 73 Nill Nill Nill Nill

Expansion 1 300 300 73 73 73 73 146 300

Expansion 1 300 300 73 73 73 73 146 300

Expansion 2 146 146 146 450 450/2 Nill Nill Nill

Expansion 2 146 146 146 450 450/2 Nill Nill Nill

DS8300

Disk type Quantity

73GB 15K RPM Number of disk 224

146GB 15K RPM Number of Disk 128



528

Upgrade

Disk Distribution

Dsk Quantities

► CBS Enterprise Storage observations

a. The current utilization capacity is approx 93% utilized and 98%allocated to various applications (only 2 TB is free from theavailable 112 TB usable capacity)

b. The IBM DS8300 storage has been declared End of Sale more thana year ago; The storage is scheduled to go end of support in 2016-17


IBM P6 595

database

server

IBM P6 595

database

server

Oracle 9i

(Configured with

Real Application

Cluster)

CP

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► The IBM P6 595 database servers

running five database instances are

configured as Active – Active

through Oracle 9i with Real

Application Cluster (RAC)

► The current utilization levels are

between 50% to 60% for each

server during normal operations


WAN, Network & Security Infrastructure at DC, DRS and NS 28 NAP locations networked over the Point to Point Network and MPLS VPN

Network There are two network links of 60 Mbps each between Data Center and

Disaster Recovery Site for branch users traffic through the backup DRS path There are two network links of 200 Mbps each between Data Center and

Disaster Recovery Site for replication. There is single network link of 900 Mbps from Data Center to Near Site for

synchronous replication.Network Components at DC and DRC

The are two Cisco 7206VXR Core WAN routers at DC and 1 x 7206 VXRRouter at DRC and 1 x 7507 Router at DRC

There are two Cisco 7206VXR VPN routers each at DC and 1 x Cisco Router7206 VXR at DRC.


The Cisco Router 3845 is used at Data Center and Disaster Recovery Site forBSNL VSAT network

The Cisco Router 3945 is used at Data Center and Disaster Recovery Site forHughes VSAT network

The 60 Mbps Network links are terminated on Cisco Router 3845 Routers at DCand DRC

There are 2 x 200 Mbps Network Links between Data Center and DisasterRecovery Site which are terminated on 2 x Cisco Nexus 7009 Switch each atData Center and Disaster Recovery Center

There is a single network link of 900 Mbps between Data Center and Near Sitewhich is terminated on SAN Switches at DC and NS

There is a single network link of 100 Mbps between Disaster Recovery Site andNear Site which is terminated on Cisco Router 3845 at Near Site and Cisco Nexus7009 Switch at Disaster Recovery Site

There are two Nexus 7009 switches acting as access layer switch for serverconnectivity.

EIGRP routing Protocol is used between DC/DR & NAP Location.


Device Type

Location

Quantity at DC

Quantity at DRC

Purpose

Device Proposed

End of Sale / End of Support

Severity and ImpactSuggested Actionable

RouterDC & DRC

2 x 7206

1x 72061x7507

CoreRouter

Upgrade to ASR 1000 Series or equivalentreplacement

29-Sept -2012 / 30-Sep-2017

Critical : Impact - Since it is core Router at DC and DRC where all NAP location links terminated on the Router also the links from the MPLS Cloud terminates on these Router; hence in case of failure of these Routers; no branches would be able to connect to the DC / DRC

Replace the Core & VPN Router 7200 VXR Series with ASR Series Routers or equivalent at DC and DRC

RouterDC & DRC

2 x 7206

2x 7206 VPN Router

Upgrade to ASR 1000 Series or equivalentreplacement

29-Sept -2012 / 30-Sep-2017

Critical:Impact –The IPSec session load on single router is high with respective to having 2500 plus IPSec session on single router. The failover convergence will be very high, and risk of entire branch network going down if failover is not successful


The dedicated data center(DC) would take care of the cooling process with dedicated IBM-16S cooling process requirements

The Disaster Recovery(DR) would not be cooled on priority as they are kicked in only when DC fails


Dedicated 20 personal during peak and 5 during non peak hours utilizing 16 manpower hours on peak and 8 manpower hours during non peak hours


Server (Admin) Side – UI using Adobe Flex utilizing action script 3.0 and HTML 5 with JavaScript handling server poll and pull process

Voter Side – UI using Java Applet and JavaScript for pull and poll process


Government issues tender for the project One IT company is thus selected to handle the

project Technical work done by the IT Team includes: Feasibility Study

▪ Technical, economical and Financial

High level design Development Testing Maintenance

Customer Support is also outsourced to the same IT company.

Human Resources required for the project: Developers

Testers▪ System and Integration Testing

▪ User Acceptance Testing

Maintenance and Support▪ Server Maintenance

▪ Database Maintenance

▪ Website Maintenance

▪ Technical Support

Human Resources required for the purpose :

Handling customer complaints

User assistance for the process

Enquiries related to delivery status of unique Id

Political parties will be educated about the system so that they spread the awareness while campaigning

Informational Advertisements :

CSR activities done by various media channels to spread awareness about social cause and events

Promoting through channels mostly viewed by youngsters like MTV, News Channel etc

College campus drives

Social Media Facebook

Twitter Print Media Newspaper

Promotional Pamphlets Transit Advertisement Ads in metro trains , buses etc

Radio and Television

Campaigning to begin 3 months prior to election

Print Media Cost

TV ads- Rs 1.8 lakh to 2laks per 10 sec

City Rate (Quarter page 16cm X 25 cm)

Mumbai 1,740,000

Delhi 1,386,000

Chennai 644,000

Kolkata 466,000

Bangalore 1,138,000

** Cost Incurring only in Mumbai by Complementary system


Table of Expenses In Crores

Cost of Website Development, Database development, maintenance, support, customer care, promotions 400

Cost of Posting Unique voting id 20

Additional Computer for Operator at each polling booth 10

Additional cost of operator at each polling booth 1.2

Total Cost 431.2

Cost to ECI by EVM method presently in Mumbai* = 16 Crore

Total Cost = 16+431.2 = 446.2 or 445 crores ECI can reduce polling booths because

complementary system is in place If polling booths reduce by 50% New Cost = 420 crore


In core monetary terms, complementary system looks expensive in beginning…..

But…..


Roll out at National Level, by integrating more security features

Deployed over Mobile phones as Mobile penetration is 7 times more than Internet penetration

Linked to Aadhar number Deployed Internationally to bring NRI in

voting purview


Army personnel can vote from Border; if he has voting id and internet connection

Students/Professional staying away from home can vote from their present location

95 years old citizen of India can vote from home

Policemen working on election day can vote by reaching to nearest polling booth or Internet cafe


Selection of Government by taking opinion from 95-100% of population

People use their most important weapon i.e. vote each time possible

Government selection on rational reasons Election that conducted under legal

framework



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