I.V. Gashnikov - Post-graduate Student, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University of R.E. Alekseev. E-mail: i.gashnikov@radiocom.nnov.ru

Modern political and social challenges are aiming to establish transparent systems for controlling various information processes. One of the most Important targets is creation of a legitimate electoral system. Provisions relating to modern systems of automated voting are set out in the concept of the State Automated System of the Russian Federation «Elections». In accordance with the concept of development of the system [1] of the funds placed in polling stations should include possibility of the electoral processes automation. The complex installed on the polling station should include a operator-s workstation, equipped with special software, data protection and data transferring. The main obstacle is a communications component so-called «digital divide» of the various regions of the country. While organization of the polling stations in big cities is rather easy task, the same objective in remote or inaccessible set-tlements puts additional challenges of access to modern information and communication technologies. It is important not only to provide access to the communication channel, but also to ensure ease of installation and maintenance, the proper level of fault tolerance. Therefore it is necessary to solve the problem of creating a telecommunications system for the polling station, which would be protected from information security threats. Architecture and principles of the modernized electoral system was proposed in this paper. The analysis of various factors affecting the operation of the electoral system in the process of voting and in preparation has allowed him to select the following-technical solutions. The analysis of information flows shows that use of a single data center is considered to be ineffective and requested to ensure the distribution of information and tasks among segments of the system. The proposed architecture of distributed computing is similar to hybrid cloud computing, which determines a number of advantages: - dividing data processing between local and geographically determined segments of the system; - local data storage; - high speed of searching; reasonable resource usage. However, this solution can entail considerable complication and distribution of logic and data access rights [3]. There is need to monitor internal and external computing infrastructure, the complexity of security policies [4]. At the same time, in terms of the modernization of the current system proposed architecture is rational. In this case violated the functionality of existing system components, and does not require a global rebuilding architecture of the upper levels, but only to retrofit and to redistribute existing resources.

 

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