Lan Based Student Council Voting System
Introduction
Computer technology has been a great help to the improvement of one’s life. Most establishments, corporations and institutions had developed their own use of such technology to help themselves work more efficiently with less time and effort, resulting in better production, profit, and a more satisfied clientele. One example of computer technology is the creation of a computer system. A design, fit for the company’s needs as well as for the customer’s. A system that will help personnel work more efficiently especially in accessing and retrieving data in and less time as possible.
Automated Election is a system appropriate technology which has been demonstrated in the voting, counting, consolidating, canvassing and transmission of election results and other electoral processes.
Automated voting technologies are increasingly used in elections across the world, particularly because they are often seen as symbolic of a country’s level of modernization. The purpose of an Automated Election System is to deliver state of the art technology that is both efficient, allowing electoral authorities to utilize the benefits of a computerized system and also practical, maintaining the basic principles that the voters and election personnel are accustomed to. This solution makes use of the latest technologies that allow electoral authorities to complete counting and canvassing processes in a matter of hours, a task that traditionally took days. The system automates the scanning counting, consolidation and transmission of the votes, in a secure and traceable manner, reducing the chance of human error, tampering or fraud attempts and increases the integrity of the elections.
Election is a beginning and an ending. A beginning of hope and an end of sacrifices. People have the ability to change our world by using the automated electoral system mechanisms which significantly reduce the chances of errors, because vote counting is based on an internal machine count rather than on individual ballots.
The Student Council elections have always been an annual activity for every school. It is an activity wherein each student is required to choose from a set of candidates who will represent each position in the Student Council. This institution had already conducted College Student Council Election of officers. It was evident unfortunately that the turnover of these said elections has a problem indeed. The creation of CSC Automated Election will help the school to make the work a lot easier and more effective because of the automation of tally of votes of students during the election period. Using computers, they would be the one to tally and transmit the votes without human intervention.
Statement of the Problem
This study aims to solve the following problems.
- Security of the votes of the students as well as the candidates.
- The counting of votes in CSC election results to time consuming due to volumes of paper.
- Miscounts of votes and erroneous counting of result due to the volumes of papers use in manual procedures.
- Invalid votes are evident that there is problem in the counting procedure of the students.
Objective of the Study
This study is proposed to develop the CSC Automated Election System that will create:
- Create a module that student will log in and will vote in a fast, easy secure and no hassle free.
- Create a module that automatically counts the number of votes per candidates once students finished voting.
- Create a module that will generate needed result that reduces the chances of errors, because vote counting is based on an internal machine count rather than human intervention.
- Create a module that will standardize voting in such a way that they will just click the candidate they choose and save it, to minimize invalid votes.
Scope and Delimitation
The researchers has anticipated covering in their study and program a system that is designed solely for College Student Council election only, the system could append instantly voters and candidates and would be responsible for counting the votes. The system was configured for at least 3-4 network computers. The system also has the capability to release required reports regarding the list of voters, candidates and the canvassing result and the system is designed with a user security access level in some services.
The researchers also made some limitations to their study; the list of courses is already predefined in the system upon when a voter or student is registered. Candidate’s record after the election will be saved and manually deleted on the system. Student that officially registered as voter can only vote. A candidate must first apply as candidate before registering as a voter.
Significance of the Study
CSC Automated Election can benefit the following:
CSC Adviser/CSC – because they can be able to get the newly elected officers as early as possible. Likewise, through the use of the system, the council can easily make some adjustments on how, when and who are the students that they need to turn over the position that they have.
Institution- because volumes of paper and human effort can lessen in canvassing the votes and electoral fraud will be eliminated.
Registrar– because no hassle for him/her to interview the candidates, to pass the valid voters to the administrator, create a committee on election and submit the list of winners to the administrator after the counting period. The only thing he/she needs to do when the system will be developed is to post the list of winners in the bulletin board after the Election.
Instructors- because there is no hassle for them assigning in every precincts as a committee on election.
Students- because their time in voting will be lessen and they will be having an assurance that their vote are counted. Likewise they can easily know the result of the election.
Candidates – because their votes will be secured and minimizes errors such as writing their names in a wrong position.
Researcher- because it can help them as a guide to enhance more from their future thesis.
