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Developing An Automated Student Council Voting System Chapter 1

This document discusses developing an automated student council voting system for Midwest College to replace their current paper-based system. The goals are to create a fast, accurate, and accessible digital platform. It will analyze the existing system, assess feasibility, design and develop a secure system for voter authentication and ballot casting/tallying. The system aims to benefit the institution, instructors, students, and candidates by streamlining the voting process and eliminating issues like errors and fraud. It will be developed using PHP and tailored specifically for Midwest College's student council elections.

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Developing An Automated Student Council Voting System Chapter 1

This document discusses developing an automated student council voting system for Midwest College to replace their current paper-based system. The goals are to create a fast, accurate, and accessible digital platform. It will analyze the existing system, assess feasibility, design and develop a secure system for voter authentication and ballot casting/tallying. The system aims to benefit the institution, instructors, students, and candidates by streamlining the voting process and eliminating issues like errors and fraud. It will be developed using PHP and tailored specifically for Midwest College's student council elections.

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Automated Student Council Voting System

Chapter 1

Background of the Study


Voting and elections are essential components of every consensus-based democracy. They're
among the most important aspects of democracy. Several voting methods have been
implemented by all countries.all around the world, each with their own unique issues. The
manual election process still dominates both developed and developing countries, but with the
idea of using an electronic substitute with the intention of exhibiting the short comings.
Additionally, given the growing interest in and focus on e-government Initiatives for e-voting, e-
democracy, and e-governance have grown in importance. Thus, several e-voting models and
methods are being tested in numerous nations to enable multinational organizations are creating
standards and allowing worldwide vote, suggestions in this regard.

In recent years, educational institutions have seen a growing interest in leveraging technology to
streamline administrative processes, enhance student engagement, and promote democratic
participation. One such area of interest is the development of Automated Student Council Voting
Systems (ASCVS), which aim to replace traditional paper-based voting methods with digital
platforms.

Online voting offers convenience to the voter and considerable ease to election administrators as
they can get election results out more quickly than conventional methods of manual voting (G.O.
Ofori-Dwumfuo E. Paatey, 2011). Midwest College is one of competitive school at Marinduque.
Last year, S. Y 2022-2023 Midwest College conducted a online voting through messenger poll.
According to journal Digital Culture and Education 4 (3): pp. 213-225., authored by Allen,
Mathew, Facebook is as natural to education as the commute, the computer, and everything else
which students ‘bring’. Facebook affords, by way of its design and use, for online
communication and networking, demonstrating the central role of reciprocal acts of attention
exchange in this system. Additionally, poll is a one of featured in messenger. The result of
having an online voting to messenger is that there’s no privacy of who you are voting. In 2016,
EPIC published The Secret Ballot at Risk: Recommendations for Protecting Democracy to
highlight the prevalence of secret ballot protections nationwide and how internet voting threatens
voter privacy. Additionally, if the others foresee that who had a high rate of voting, the others
just joined without serious intention.

While this school year Midwest College used appointing voting system. We observed
that Midwest College had no specific platform voting system that’s why this study, the
Researcher’s goal in this study is to develop and create a fast, accurate, and accessible computer-
based-class voting system for the School’s Administration, Instructors, Students, and the school
as a whole, that will provide an organization and upgraded voting system. Since we are now used
to technology, we researchers advise to the innovative ing manual voting system in Marinduque
Midwest College to the utmost.

The Objective of the Study

This study aims to develop the Automated Election System that will create:

 Analyze the existing system


 Asses the system in terms of operational and technical feasibility
 Design and develop a system that shows Accuracy, which is important for data input
of voters and candidates, casting and tallying of votes, and presenting of results;
Security and Authentication, which establishes the data and system's accessibility to
users.
 Test and validate the system based on the requirements acquired.

Significance of the Study

Student Council Automated Election can benefit the following:

Institution - because volumes of paper and human effort can lessen canvassing the votes
and electoral fraud will be eliminated.

Instructors - because there is no hassle for them to assign in every precinct as a

Election committee.
Students - because their time in voting will be less and they will be assured that their
votes are counted. Likewise, they can easily know the result of the election.

Candidates – because their votes will be secured and minimize errors such as writing
their names in the wrong position.

Researcher - because it can help them as a guide to enhance more from their future
thesis

Scope and Limitation

The proposed system includes login for the administrator and login for the students. The
admin has the only rights to access the administration area and is authorized to access the
transaction such as adding, editing, and deleting information inside the system. The students will
log in as voters. The system is designed with a user security access level and it is responsible for
determining the authenticity of the voter by his/her given student id number and password. The
student that officially registered as a voter can only vote once. The system would be responsible
for counting the votes and can release required reports regarding the list of voters, candidates,
and canvassing of results. Candidate records after the election will be saved and can be manually
deleted by the administrator. The researchers will use the programming language PHP because
PHP is a more simple and more user-friendly programming application software that can be
easily understood by the beneficiary.

The system is designed solely for the student council college department election of
Marinduque Midwest College. It is not applicable in other student council elections because the
running positions were not the same.

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