SEC Gujarat Online Voting System : onlinevotinggujarat.gov.in

Organisation : SEC, State Election Commission, Gujarat
Facility : Online Voting System for Gujarat.
Home Page : http://sec.gujarat.gov.in/e-voting-system.htm

SEC Gujarat Online Voting System

Online Voting System for Gujarat.

Related : CEO Gujarat Choryasi Assembly Constituency Bye Election : www.electionin.in/2289.html

Voting Using Internet Technology

Option 1 :
Voting from Residence :
Requirements for Registration :
** Internet Service Provider
** Name
** Address
** Age
** Mobile Number
** E-mail Address

Requirements for Voting :
** Computer with Internet Connectivity
** JAVA Runtine Environment (JRE)
** Shruti Font for Gujarati Display

Option 2 :
Voting from e-Polling Booth :
Requirements for Registration :
** Internet Service Provider
** Name
** Address
** Age
** Mobile Number
** E-mail Address

Requirements for Voting :
Visit e-Polling Booth with Photo ID Card

Steps For Online Voting

** Online Registration
** Account Activation
** Cast Vote – Voting Day

Online Registration

** Visit onlinevotinggujarat.gov.in for Online Registration
** Fill up the Form with all mandatory fields & Submit. SEC officials may visit to verify information provided by you.

** Only if your application is approved, you will receive your Credentials (Username on your email & Password on your mobile) for Online Voting and you will be advised to activate your voting account prior to polling day

** If your application is not approved, you will receive an intimation on your email to visit EVM polling booth of your ward to cast your vote – 7 –

Account Activation

** Click on activation link & login using username and password provided in the e-mail sent by SEC. *
** Change your password and activate your voting account *

Cast Vote – Voting Day

** Login to onlinevotinggujarat.gov.in with your username and password View digital ballot paper and select candidate(s)
** Confirm your vote by entering SMS passcode received on your registered mobile (Applicable to voting from residence option)
** Receipt of successful vote cast

Steps to cast your vote on voting day :
Step 1: Login
Step 2: Login Validation and welcome message
Step 3: View and select candidate(s) from Ballot
Step 4: Confirmation of candidate(s) selected
Step 5: Enter passcode received on your registered mobile
Step 6: Encrypted Receipt upon successful vote cast

Procedure

** The concerned Election Officer of the ward under E-voting system of the Municipal Corporation, before starting of the voting will decide the place for Mock Poll through E-voting card placed in the system by Returning Officer in the presence of the representatives of the recognised political party / candidate / Polling Agent and Mock poll through E-voting system.

** For the purpose of “Mock poll” the Returning Officer will prepare a list of about 20 representatives and their mobile number including those of the candidates or their authorized representatives.

** The Mock Poll exercise must be completed before starting of the E-voting i.e. around 7-30 AM without fail.
** After the Mock Poll, there will be mixing of votes with the help of smart card and will declare the result of Mock Poll, keeping a hard copy of the same for record.

** He will then delete the Mock Poll details from the system and will ensure to all those present there that every thing is deleted from the system and will make a Rajkam ( recording ) of the same.

** The mock poll will be done by those E-voters who have been decided by the Returning Officer after inserting their names in the system.
** After a Mock-Poll exercise, all these names will be deleted from the system.

** After this process, the names of the real E-voters, who are going to vote through E-voting system, the soft copy of which is ready, will be introduced in the system by the Returning Officer by clicking at an appropriate place in the E-voting system, likewise the data and time of the E-voting shall have to be entered into the system.

** After this process, for starting E-Voting shall have to be entered into the system.
** After this process for starting E-Voting at stipulated time the system will be made “ready to start”.

Procedure to be followed by the voter for E-voting :
** For E-voting, the E-voter has to log in by using the user name and pass word for registering his vote on the day and at the time, as declared by Election Commission whom he logs in the E-voting card will be seen on the screen.

** A voter came give his vote to maximum three candidates.

** For registering the vote, the voter will click in the box provided near the serial number of the candidates whom he wants to vote, At this time, another pass word appeared on the voter’s registered mobile number.

** The voter will enter this pass word at appropriate place in the computer, the computer screen shall display the information that the vote is actually entered.
** This information will also contain one specific number of receipt, but the receipt will not display which voter has voted for which candidate.

** The receipt will be in encrypted language using the symbolic medium with the use of technology.
** If a voter wishes to take a print of the displayed receipt, It can be taken, but it can not be comprehended by any person, and hence the confidentiality of voting shall be kept intact.

Guidelines : https://www.electionin.in/uploads/2898-promotional-OVS-v2-new.pdf

Tallying under E-voting :
** On completion of Voting, the Returning Officer will find out from the system, the number of E-voters who have cast their voting through E-voting and will prepare an account in form “B” will seal it in an envelope, subscribed as “Number of E-voters who have voted through E-voting system”.

** The Returning Officer will supply the certified copy of format “B” on demand by the contesting candidates / Polling Agent or their representative and will get the receipt of the same.