DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN EDUCATIONAL AUTOMATED VOTING SYSTEM
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Voting or casting of lots has become the main method of selecting individuals for a vacant position. There have been several methods of voting practiced over the years, ranging from raising of hand, using ballot papers, and even using pebbles as in the typical case of the Nigeria. It is on this premise that this study was embarked upon to design and implement an automated Voting System for Academic Institutions which is an Online Voting System. The concept could be extended to all Institutions or organization’s election once the electorates can be identified with unique Identification Numbers. It is recommended that further research and implementation should be conducted to include functionalities or features to enable the visually impaired individuals vote.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
APPROVAL PAGE
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
- OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
- SCOPE OF THE STUDY
- LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
- PROJECT REPORT ORGANISATION
- DEFINITION OF TERMS
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 REVIEW OF VOTERS REGISTRATION IN SOME COUNTRIES
2.2 ELECTRONIC VOTERS REGISTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
2.3 PAPER-BASED ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM
2.4 DIRECT-RECORDING ELECTRONIC (DRE) VOTING SYSTEM
2.5 ELECTRONIC BALLOTS
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY
- DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
- FACT FINDING METHOD / METHODOLOGY
- INTERVIEW METHOD
3.2.2 REFERENCE TO WRITTEN TEXT
- PRESENT PROCEDURES
- INFORMATION FLOW DIAGRAM
- INPUT, PROCESS AND OUTPUT ANALYSIS
- INPUT ANALYSIS
- PROCESS ANALYSIS
- OUTPUT ANALYSIS
- PROBLEMS OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM
- JUSTIFICATION FOR THE NEW SYSTEM
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 SYSTEM DESIGN, TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION
- SPECIFICATIONS OF THE NEW SYSTEM
- INPUT SPECIFICATION
- OUTPUT SPECIFICATION
- DATABASE SPECIFICATION
- MAIN MENU DESIGN
- SUBSYSTEM DESIGN
- LOGIN SUBSYSTEM
- REGISTRATION SUBSYSTEM DESIGN
- REPORT SUBSYSTEM DESIGN
- SYSTEM FLOWCHART
- TOP-DOWN SYSTEM
- PROGRAM MODULES SPECIFICATION
4.10 CHOICE OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
4.11 PROGRAM FLOWCHART
CHAPTER FIVE
- RECOMMENDATION, SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
- RECOMMENDATION
- SUMMARY
- CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the Study
The federal republic of Nigeria comprises of 36 states, The federal capital territory (FCT), and 774 local government areas (LGAs). The country is located in west Africa and shares land borders with the republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east and Niger in the north. The three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Ibo, Hausa and Yoruba ethnic groups.
In Nigeria, General elections are conducted every four years, where a head of state the president and the national assembly representatives are elected. They are elected by the people. The national assembly has about 360 members representing various constituencies.
Most African electoral bodies with no exception to INEC, even with the advancements of technology, still use primitive paper based methods during voting; this system is characterized by manual form filling to chose leaders and transfer of information from manual data capture forms to computerized datasheets, this has led to a high number of mistakes making their way into the final votes count. The main advantage of the paper based system is the ballot papers are easily human auditable. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages for instance printing of ballot papers is slow, expensive, inflexible, environmentally hostile and also literacy limitations and last minute changes to the voter register are difficult to accommodate among others. It is on this premise that this study was embarked upon to design and implement an automated Voting System for Academic Institutions which is an Online Voting System. The concept has been implemented for our institution. The results showed that the online system was outstanding with real-time results of the voting process and easy administrative management. The users of the system which involved students as well as some electoral supervisors realized the online voting system was a better, effective and more efficient way of voting in the school as compared to the paper balloting method of voting. The concept could be extended to all Institutions or organization’s election once the electorates can be identified with unique Identification Numbers. It is recommended that further research and implementation should be conducted to include functionalities or features to enable the visually impaired individuals vote.
- Statement of the Problem
The election process begins from voters (students) registration even in our institutions today. The method adopted during voters registration goes a long way to determine the freeness and fairness of the election. In Nigeria, voting/registration process is very cumbersome. So many cases, missing data in the voter registration file have been reported. There are also situations where unregistered voters flock to the polling station to participate in the voting process. Even after voting, malicious clerks and officers- in – charge of a polling station end up playing with the result figures.
1.3 Objectives of the Study
The aim of this project is to develop a database for voter’s registration which will in turn help institution to conduct a free and fair election using electronic machines.
To replace the current inefficient manual system of voting in Academic Institutions.
To ensure credibility in elections by preventing double voting,
Help the school reduce the huge costs incurred in conducting elections.
- Scope of the Study
The research work is designed to enable the school management to use electronic device to capture voter’s information. The design will cover some security issues like authenticating the nationality of the voters through integrating the national ID database to the voter’s registration process and also capturing the picture of the electorates for validation during election.
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- Limitations
During the design of this project work, much finance was required and owing to the financial meltdown globally, the research was limited by finance and hence concentrated on the available materials within the locality.
- Significance of the Study
In view of the rapid development of computer technology in virtually all fields of operation and its use in relation to information management, it has become important to look into the development of electronic voters registration system to enable the school management to achieve the following:
- Conduct free and fair election
- Safeguard data and information in the system.
- Reduced workload in the process of conducting election
- Keep accurate record of votes
- Reduce time wasted in announcing election result
- Eliminate disenfranchising electorates.
- Project Report Organisation
This project was covered under five stages:
CHAPTER 1; Deals with the introduction. The background of the project is discussed. The objectives of the project, its significance, scope, and constraints are pointed out.
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CHAPTER 2; This chapter is a Review of Voters Registration in Some Countries and the literature review.
CHAPTER 3; Discusses system Investigation and Analysis. It deals with detailed investigation and analysis of the existing system and problem identification.
CHAPTER 4; Treats the system design and implementation
CHAPTER 5; The summary and conclusion of the project are finally treated in this chapter.
- Definition of Terms
voting system: is a method by which voters make a choice between options, often in an election or on a policy referendum
e-voting: also known as electronic voting is a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote and electronic means of counting votes.
Information System: It is a collection of procedures, people, instructions and equipment to produce information in a useful form
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Technology: It is study of techniques or process of mobilizing resources (such as information) for accomplishing objectives that benefit man and his environment
Computer Network: is a system that connects two or more computers together using a communication link.
Databases: A systematically arranged collection of computer data, structured so that it can be automatically retrieved or manipulated. It is also called databank.
CHAPTER FIVE
- RECOMMENDATION, SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
- Recommendation
It suffices to say that for any meaningful computer based information management to be integrated into any organization, proper training and orientation has to be given to both staff and management. Proper training should be given to the data entry staff on how to handle the computer hardware especially during backup processes. In particular electronic storage media are usually sensitive to change in temperature or pressure and as such data, can be lost very easily. The staff should also be briefed on the need and advantage of the current system and how it will equally assist them in their various field of work.
They should also be informed of the cost of maintaining this new system so that they will handle it with all carefulness. Training materials should not be presented in an informal way but with procedures like policies and form etc,they should be circulated to the personnel. This will at the end, generate the staff appreciation and needed interest to operate the system.
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- Summary
At the end of this project work, I was able to design and develop a software that can successfully handle electronic voter’s registration system.
This work also will serve as an aid for people who wish to research more on this topic. Other benefits are:
- Provision of facility for handling text electronically using powerful and sophisticated word processors to produce elegant and error free documents.
- In addition to storing the data, direct data capture was implemented
The systematic approaches used during each phase of the software development provides a clear insight that would be of immense help to anyone carrying out research works in this area.
- Conclusions
The development electronic voter’s registration system involved many phases.
The approach used is a top-down one concentrating on what first, then how and moving to successive levels of details.
The first phase started with a detailed study of the problems and prospects of conducting election in Nigeria. In the course of this study, many problems were discovered to have hindered the effectiveness of the existing manual system. These problems, information needs, and activities were documented and later used as the basis for system design, which immediately followed the first phase. The design phase was concerned primarily with the specification of the system elements in a manner that best met the voter’s registration need. During this phase, strict adherence was made on proven software engineering principles and practices. To implement this design, a computer program was then written and tested
It is hoped that effective implementation of this software product would eliminate many problems discovered during systems investigation.
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