A Vote System or Electoral System

Introduction

Is a method by which electors make a pick between options. frequently in an election. A vote system enforces regulations to guarantee valid vote. and how ballots are counted and aggregated to give a concluding consequence. The word “vote” means to take from a list. to elect or to find. The chief end of vote is to come up with leaders of the student’s pick. in order this to go on. the vote system is needed. Voting system can assist a batch in this affair.

This system will function as a usher to the proper flow of the vote event. Today. the vote system is widely known and used in about all schools who exercise their right to vote specially in electing school officers. In voting system. a user can utilize his or her vote right. He/she has to be registered foremost in order to vote. Registration is chiefly done by the decision maker. for security grounds. After being registered by the decision maker the elector is given a secret elector codification which he/she can utilize to entree the system. If invalid/wrong inside informations are submitted. so the citizen is non registered to vote and the system will non allow that individual to vote.

Undertaking Context

This undertaking focuses on analyzing the current vote system and attack in Central Philippine State University –Victorias Campus. The receivers of this undertaking are the school organisations. The advocates proposed this undertaking in order to better the current vote system in the said campus. They will be implementing an automated vote system of FLP-SSG in Central Philippine State University –Victorias Campus. The numeration of ballots will be automated every bit good as make fulling up the names of the campaigner.

Purpose and Description

This undertaking entitled “FLP-SSG Automated Voting System of CPSU –Victorias Campus” is intended to heighten the current or bing voting system of the school campus and besides to develop a computerized vote system that will assist them to decrease the clip consumed and to guarantee safe-keeping of the information files. The undertaking research workers and the receiver believe that the mechanization of the said system will assist them a batch.

The Election officers/staff. This automated vote system provides easy numeration of ballot since it is automatically numbering the ballot after the electors submit its signifier. This system can besides hold functionaries to guarantee safe maintaining of records. This system can besides supply information that are saved if being question or needed. This will besides decrease the clip concern in voting event. The Student: This system will assist the pupil to decrease the clip consume in voting procedure. This will besides supply to hold an easy and smooth processing of election.

It will be reexamining the bing current vote procedure or attack in CPSU –Victorias University Campus. It will besides formalize the system to guarantee that merely legible electors are allowed to vote and to guarantee the safe maintaining paths of all records. Cases of ballot miscounts shall besides be solved since at the back-end of this system resides a well-developed database which can supply the correct informations if needed.

It is focused on analyzing the vote system of CPSU Victorias campus and to do certain that the pupils ballot is counted. for equity in the elected place. The system will bring forth less labour intensifier and besides less paperless plants. Increasing figure of electors as persons will happen it easier and more convenient to vote. It will besides guarantee that the members who are registered are the lone 1s to vote. Improvement in voting services to the electors through fast. seasonably and convenient vote. It requires less figure of staff during the election.

The system is intended to be used merely in CPSU – Victorias University Campus. The system does non back up on-line vote. Since this will be the first clip that the school will utilize an machine-controlled vote system. the functionaries will hold to show first how to utilize the system since non all the pupils are able to utilize it decently specially to those who have less cognition in computing machines.

Review of Related Literature

Foreign LITERATURE

A vote system or electoral system is a method by which electors make a pick between options. frequently in an election. Many research workers have done work in the vote system. Academians like Peter Neumann focal point on the enormousness of the job one faces when seeking to plan and implement a truly secure vote system. Neumann gives a list of suggestions for “generic vote criteria” which suggests that a vote system should be so difficult to fiddle with and so immune to failure that no commercial system is likely of all time to run into the demands. and developing a suited usage system would be highly hard and prohibitively expensive. Voting system must bring forth human-readable hardcopy paper consequences. which can be verified by the elector before the ballot is cast. and manually recounted subsequently if necessary.

Many voting systems uses equipments and theses equipments are divided into 5 types.

1. Paper- based vote: The elector gets a clean ballot and utilize a pen or a marker to bespeak he desire to vote for which campaigner. Hand-counted ballots is a clip and labour devouring procedure but it is easy to manufactured paper ballots and the ballots can be retained for verifying. this type is still the most common manner to vote.
2. Pry voting machine: Degree machine is curious equipment. and each lever is assigned for a corresponding campaigner. The elector pulls the lever to canvass for his favourite campaigner. The sort of voting machine can number up the ballots automatically. Because its interface is non user-friendly plenty. hiving some preparation to electors is necessary.
3. Direct entering electronic vote machine: This type. which is abbreviated to DRE. integrates with keyboard: touch screen. or buttons for the elector imperativeness to canvass. Some of them put in vote records and numbering the ballots is really rapidly. But the other DRE without keep vote records are doubted about its truth.
4. Punch card: the elector uses metallic hole-punch to plug a hole on the clean ballot. It can number ballots automatically. but if the voter’s perforation is uncomplete. the consequence is likely determined wrongfully.
5. Optical vote machine: after each elector fills a circle correspond to their favourite campaigner on the clean ballot. this machine selects the darkest grade on each ballot for the ballot so computes the entire consequence. This sort of machine counts up ballots quickly. However. if the elector fills over the circle. it will take to the mistake consequence of optical-scan.

Local LITERATURE

Automated Elections implemented in Baguio ( University of Cordilleras ) . Winners were already known right after the last ballot was cast during an machine-controlled election at the University of the Cordilleras ( UC-BCF ) . Four of its colleges utilized a computerized system during the Supreme Student Government ( SSG ) Elections last July 24. 2007 while the Supreme Court is still settling the P1. 3 billion deserving cybernation issues on the 2007 elections. the UC-BCF has proven that mechanization of elections is plausible. The automated canvass system was created under the supervising of Engr. Eliseo Ruiz of the College of Information and Computing Sciences ( CICS ) . ”At first it was a stand-alone system when developed and used in 1997. but in 1999. we were able to implement a web system for it. ” said Engr. Ruiz. CICS was certified by the Commission on Higher Education as the Center of Development for Excellence ( CODE ) for Information Technology. UC-CICS has been sharing the plan to other colleges for the past four old ages.

This 2006. technology. accounting and nursing pupils were able to profit from the mechanization procedure. “All the pupils did was input their pupil ID figure and click beside the name of their chosen campaigner. “said SSG Adviser Mr. Benjamin Alo. who besides disclosed that the system was safe. To avoid winging electors. pupil ID entree Numberss were automatically blocked upon voting. Votes were automatically tallied

LOCAL SYSTEM

Mindanao State University – SSC Voting SystemWriter: Jelly Ann Echavez. Philip Cesar Garay. ArbieRatunilFor many old ages since this University founded. this establishment had already conducted many major university pupil council election of officers for the MSUN Supreme Student Council. It was so apparent unluckily that the turnover of these said elections had turned to be slow and boring. It was slow because of the undermentioned scenarios:

• The Election is done manually. so the electioneering is devouring a large sum of clip. in fact in most of the elections the electioneering of ballots took a long hours and more clip consume.
• Miscount of ballots that may do for under ballot or otherwise over ballot.
• Mistally and misstated ballot for a campaigner.

It was difficult and tiresome on the portion of the election facilitators because it needs a batch of energy and clip to get the better of the complexness of the readyings and the retention of the election down to the electioneering of ballots. So with these jobs the call for a alteration is considered.

Since this University adapted many new classs and one of these classs is Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. As a pupil in this class there is a call and a demand for reformation and revival of the bing traditional and manual vote system. The execution of the computerized vote system is the reply for this pandemonium. Rationale This undertaking was founded and created to replace the bing manual vote system that had produced incommodiousness non merely to the electors but besides to the election facilitators.

• The system is responsible of finding the genuineness of the elector except for his/her studentID and watchword.
• The list of classs is already predefined in the system upon when elector or pupil is registered.
• Candidates’ record after the election will be saved and will be manually deleted on the system.
• Student that officially registered as elector can merely vote.
• The system is created with a security degree. watchwords of some system services are implemented.
• A campaigner must foremost use as campaigner before registering as a elector.
• This system was configured for standalone PC’s merely.

The demand to plan and do a computerized vote system may be able to carry on the election in a fast. correct. and convenient manner and to accomplish good and truth in its consequences. Hypothesis of the survey Computerized vote systems are widely used in elections. This paper describes utilizing a computerized vote system as the footing for a undertaking in an Information Technology class. Through the preparation of this system the pupils are so confident that the whole electoral procedure will non merely be fast and promptly but most of all accurate and precise. Significance of the survey It is the concern of the research workers to construct a computerized vote system that will be used by the Supreme Student Council of MSU at Naawan. It will assist to extinguish frauds and manoeuvres in polling sing that the computing machine will be the one to number the ballots.

FOREIGN SYSTEM

Midlands Technical College – SSC Voting Syst This is the VOTE PLUS direction package developed in vb. cyberspace. It is chiefly done for the college intent particularly in Midlands Technical College. All the candidates’ names of the different subdivision will be displayed in the screen harmonizing to their station. Students have to merely travel and snap the button to vote. Calculation of the ballot is done automatically which can be viewed merely to the Admin. The victors name will be shown in the screen and even the ballots they have gained. So this package can be used for the college voting interest. where there will be complete security. and the clip to number the ballots will be saved. because of the automatic computation.

Organization Adviser – Approved or disapproved the proposed program of the SSG organisation.Propose a suggestion that will heighten the proposal. Executive Committee – Execute all regulations. regulations. memorandum. Torahs and declarations passed by the Council and Senate. Serve as the vehicle of student authorities in inquiring grants from the disposal for the benefit of the pupils. Present programs of activities to the disposals and co-ordinates with the school governments in transporting out such programs and plans specially affecting student’s engagement. one time enacted by the Council and punctually approved by the University President. President – Overall in charge of SSG. Together with other EXECOM functionaries they test the declaration being submitted by Legislative Committee. Vice-President – Take the duty if the president is non about. Senators – Test the rightness of the declaration.

Legislative Body – to go through declarations. regulations and ordinances aimed for the improvement of the pupils. Deliberate on proposed programs and budget on pupil activities presented to the Council by the SSG President. Sectors and General Assembly – Render proper counsel to the officers of the organisation. Act as mediators between SSG and Administration.Help the SSG in transporting out the programs for the school twelvemonth.

Methodology

All research is based on some implicit in philosophical premises about what constitutes ‘valid’ research and which research method ( s ) is/are appropriate for the development of the system in a given proposal. In order to carry on and measure any research. it is hence of import to cognize what these premises are. This chapter discusses the philosophical premises and besides the design strategies underpinning this research survey. Common premises were reviewed and presented ; the interpretative paradigm was identified for the model of the survey.

In add-on. the chapter discusses the research methodological analysiss. and design used in the survey including schemes. instruments. and informations aggregation and analysis methods. while explicating the phases and procedures involved in the survey. The advocates are responsible for the undertaking given. Interview is done in order to garner helpful information. The advocates will developed an automated vote system for the receiver. This system development will last until first hebdomad of October 2014.

REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION

The system that we develop can cut down or take the mistakes that as being encountered in the current system. The system will besides supply user friendly interface and easy to run for the user. The developed system is capable besides of safe maintaining path of records and can follow to the current system the receiver is utilizing.

Development AND Testing

The system was developed with Visual Basic 6. 0 as the scheduling linguistic communication and Microsoft Access as the storage database. The advocates used a laptop with specification of Intel ® Celeron –CPU 1000M @ 1. 80 GHz of processor. 2GB of RAM and Windows 8. 1 32bit operating system. The advocates is besides the developer of the system. The system is being trial with the other laptops. desktop and seems to work really good. We test it in Windows XP Professional Edition ( 32 spot ) with specification of Intel Dual Core® processor. 1 GB of RAM and 256MB of VGA card. We besides test it in Windows 7 Ultimate Edition ( 64 spot ) and besides map it really good. The receivers besides test the system and approved it.

IMPLEMENTATION Plan

The advocates will develop the users foremost by utilizing the system before the election. We will hold a presentation to the election officers on how to utilize the system. After that. the election officers will be the 1 who is responsible for showing on how to utilize the system for the electors with the usher of the advocates.

The receiver will utilize the system for the approaching election event. During the first clip that the election will take topographic point utilizing the proposed system the advocates will be on usher to the electors and the election officers. The needful stuffs should be ready before the election event.

The system will be evaluated each and after the election procedure. The advocates is besides unfastened for the recommendations of the needful characteristics that will assist more to the both election officers and the users. We will besides rede to the election officer to hold a backup of the database of the system.

BUDGET RECOMMENDATION

The budget needed for the system is non a large money. The system is capable of running to different platforms of hardware specification that is widely available to the market. Below is the sum-up of the budget recommended in table signifier.