CHAPTER I

INTRODOCTION

1.1 Background of the study

Human beings nowadays need to have a specific set of skills to survive in

this competitive and vast world as well as to progress. This set of skills can be

referred to as Education. Education is recognized as a gateway to the

opportunities and benefits of economic and social development. It develops the

modes of self-presentation, self-image, and social class identifications, which are

the crucial ingredients of job adequacy. It is far more than mere reading, writing,

and solving.

The significance of education is evident in acquiring a subject matter and

basic knowledge needed to get by in our everyday life. Education is one of the

most important investments a country should provide to its people and the future

as It unlocks a country's potential for economic growth.

Education also provides appropriate socialized economic structure which is

essential in a society, and the idea of having an educational system will greatly

enhance the efficiency of education in every country. Educational System merely

helps integrate youth into the economic system, through a structural

correspondence between its social relations and those of production. In line with
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this, the Student Council was established as supplementary to the adopted

educational system.

A Student Council is a representative structure for students, through which they

can become involved in the affairs of the school, working in partnership with

school management, staff and parents for the benefit of the school and its

students. It also explores the vastness of leadership and service potential of

students to harness and develop them for optimum empowerment - to act as

catalyst for moral and social change.

The Student Council may make rules governing its meetings and the business

and conduct of it’s affairs, but it shall consult with the Board of Management

before doing so. Such rules may include the drawing up of a Constitution where

a Student Council does not already have a constitution in place - it should be

encouraged to draw one up. When the Student Council have drawn up their

Constitution, it should be presented to the Board for formal ratification.

The Student Council elections have always been an annual activity for every

school. It is an opportunity to choose who will be the leader that would supervise

the student body and look in their welfare. The importance of this activity is

to form unity and to have an edge of choosing the most deserving. It is the

time the students are given a power and a voice to suggest and to choose

whoever they wanted to speak on behalf of them.

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However, the traditional way of Student Council elections exhibits major

problems in the security of votes and expenses on the materials for the casting

and tallying of the votes. Class officers consumed much of their time with this

activity for they need to tally the votes together with their respective advisers.

In this 21st century, people became more literate especially with the use of

computers. Technologies emerged to introduce variety of advancement. In the

new era of advanced technology, it helps boost work speed, reduces mistakes

and promotes the generation of accurate results, and so having manual election

system became amis fortune.

Fortunately, the introduction of computers greatly improves the speed and

efficiency of voting process. Results could be attained even right after the voting,

reducing the time to a mere fraction compared to the time it takes if the voting

is done manually. It also increases the level of the voting experience because

of multimedia enhancements.

Now more than ever, technology is changing the voting process, express

opinions, and make decisions. As access to technology and the Internet proliferate

throughout the world, online voting provides new ways for the people to make

their voice heard, contribute ideas, and participate in elections and decision-

making.

Online Voting System is a system that facilitates the running of elections and

surveys online. This system has been developed to simplify the process of
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organizing elections and make it convenient for voters to cast their vote remotely

from their mobile or computer while taking in there free time, anonymity and

providing auditioning capabilities as well as for tallying the votes and

automatically producing results and polling forecasts. The concept of this system

was somehow adopted from the Direct-recording electronic voting machine.

A Direct – recording electronic (DRE) voting machine records votes by means

of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that

can be activated by the voter such as buttons or touchscreen that processes data

with computer software; and that records voting data and ballot images in the

computer memory. After the election, it produces a tabulation of the voting data

stored in a removable memory component and as printed copy. These systems

use a precinct count method that tabulates ballots at the polling place. They

typically tabulate ballots as they are casted and print the results after the close

of polling.

As for the Online voting system, it will provide online displaying of ballots

and centralized online tallying of votes in which the data will be stored in a

database for the broadcasting of results.

In this study, the proponents tried to cover the problems confronted by voters,

election officials and parties during elections to suggest a system that would

ensure the security from fraud during elections and to facilitate a safe and rapid

counting of votes afterwards.

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1.2 Statement of the problem

The online voting system is the system implemented to make the voting system

easy for both voting and also for the administrator to view and check the result

for each area individually.

Here the voting is done anywhere with in spite of the area in which they

reside.

1. A manual voting requires an accurate count of votes in able to know the results

of the winning candidate after the voting process. the results of manual voting

came into question due to several factors regarding human error and miscount

of votes. How to ensure the accuracy in counting of votes in voting system of

Redeeming grace learning Center in order to be more reliable?

2. Many of the traditional problems faced in manual voting revolve around security

issues. Tallying and transmission of result are the root of unintended errors' . to

secure the integrity of the votes of the student?

3. It takes a lot of time in voting manually because the student needs to write

down their chosen candidate, and it is hassle for the teachers/administrator to

count the votes of the student one by one. Hence, it is very time consuming.

how to lessen the time o f gathering of the results without counting manually?
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1.3 Significance of the study

the traditional way of Student Council elections exhibits major problems

in the security of votes and expenses on the materials for the casting and tallying

of the votes. Class officers consumed much of their time with this activity for

they need to tally the votes together with their respective advisers. That why

we create this system to help the student there time efficient.

Security – Security of this application secured because only the administrator

can open and see The flow of the voting .

Time - the class officer and the adviser will not consumed more time to count

the Vote Because Our voting system will automatically count the vote and

Determine who will Win the student Council president and the member.

Cost - the expenses on the materials for casting the vote will be less because

Our Voting system will not use a bond paper or other materials to conduct are

system.
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1.4 Scope and limitation

 This study encompasses only the development and implementation of an online

student council voting system which secures a reliable election by undergoing

a series of process.

 First, the voters are registered and given the login details to log into the

system. The voters are authenticated by the system and verified if the voter

has the right to access the system.

 The voters cast their votes and the system saves the votes into the database.

The votes are managed, sorted and prepared for the counting. Afterwards, The

votes are decrypted and counted.

 The system checks whether the eligible voters voted and if their votes were

counted for the final tally. Lastly , the results of the final tally will then be

published on the hosted website.

 The system also comprises the ability of the system administrator to add and

remove users as well as updating their information. It could allow the system

admin to create, remove, update, and edit an event.

 The proposed system is certainly responsive and adaptive as the human effort

required in managing the voting sessions is drastically reduced mainly because

the major processes such as voting and processing of votes is managed by

the system.

 It is mainly focused on addressing the election process during their perennial

Supreme Student Council elections which only includes the students and school
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administration of the school premises. Maintenance staff are prohibited to use

the system as they are not included in the election event process.

1.5 Definition of term

Online is controlled by or connected to another computer or to a network.

Student Council is a representative structure for students, through which they

can become involved in the affairs of the school, working in partnership with

school management, staff and parents for the benefit of the school and its

students.

Online Voting System is a system that facilitates the running of elections and

surveys online.

Online is the state of being connected to the internet or a system, now it can

be use part of voting system for election event.

Database is organized collection of data for one or more purposes that can be

stored, recorded, managed, and updated the voting data and ballot from the

storage.

Data is a record or a collection of an item.

Administrator The person who has full access to the user’s computer. Admin

operates the database to monitoring the number of voting process. Also manage

security.
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1.6 Hypothesis

The online voting system is the system implemented to make the voting

system easy for both voting and also for the administrator to view and check

the result for each Area individually.

 CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Review of Related literature

According to Cayabyab (2008) College Student Council Voting System for

Pangasinan State University Bayambang-Campus. The College Student Council
Voting System was software designed primarily for developing election
applications. It was simple software, because it managed to secure the ballots
and performed quick counterbalance. It was designed to take us through the
novice user of the proposed system and it is designed as user friendly
environment to know abruptly the command or syntax of the software and user
will have not to invest their time and effort to learn it.

According to Echavez, Garay, Ratunil (2010) Lucky 3 Voting System

Mindanao State University Their voting system is composed of a well
secured and user-friendly system that makes their Student Council reliable.
Their system creates a more level playing field for political parties their
candidates and it even gives a chance for independent candidates to take on
veteran players, this ultimately leads to a more dynamic and vibrant student-
politics in Mindanao State University.
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According to Soledad, Lamis, Valenzuela (2010) Inocencio V. Ferrer Memorial

School of Fisheries Automated Voting System Their voting system that is
seemingly simple, and its advantages scream out at you. If implemented without
hitches, it allows for fast, virtually instantaneous tabulation of votes.

According to Bila, Cakalli, Harrington, Harrington, Rosco (2005) Trent

University aye Poll On-line Voting System is a web based system that facilitates

the running of elections and surveys online. This system has been developed

by SoftworksDev to simplify the process of organizing elections and make it

convenient for voters to vote remotely from their home computers while taking

into consideration security, anonymity and providing auditioning capabilities. The

voting system presented above provided the proponents the idea of facilities that

a voting system can have.

According to Tantia, Agrawal (2008) LSA Elections Computerized Voting

System in India The council elections were carried out in a much smoother and

modern way. They saved on time, effort, paper and whole lot of sweat. This

was the first time in India that such a thing was done, and while being modern

and user-friendly, it was also eco-friendly as it saved a lot of paper that would

have been used up as ballot paper.

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According to University of Calabar an online voting system that was designed

to meet the electoral needs of universities and colleges. Design/Methodology:

The prototyping model was adopted as the methodology for designing the

application. In designing the Online Voting System, Flowcharts, Use Case

Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) were also employed. Results: The

system generated a more convenient voter and candidate registration interface,

an efficient voting interface, vote storage and count plus immediate result

compilation etc.
 CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

3.1Research design

The diagram shows the steps as boxes of various kinds, and their order by connecting

the boxes with arrows. This diagrammatic it representation an illustration of solution

model to a given problem.

(Figure 1.0 Student voting system flowchart)

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Data Flow Diagram/(DFD) maps out the flow of information for any process or system.

(Figure 2.0 Student voting system data Flow Diagram)

 CHAPTER IV PRESENTION OF DATA

1.frist Put your Username or Account Number

Login

(Figure 3.0 web site for STUDENT front page )

2. second put your Password 3.then click the Login to go to

the website where you will vote

Reminder: only the admin can give and create the Username or Account Number and Password.
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1. here we can see the name of the party list

2.we can see here the list of
the name of the candidate

“Student Voting System”

(Choose wisely )
VOTE VOTE
S w e e t PARTY LIST S o u r PARTY LIST
President: President:
1.John Lerry Dequiña 1.Philmarc Ensencio
Vice president: Vice president:
1.Keith Ryan Pasturan 1.Jhon Walter Torres
-----------------------------

Submit

(Figure 4.0 web site for STUDENT second page)

3.Here we can make our decision that who will be the

President or vice president and other student that involved
To the student voting system (just click it)
4.you will going to click the SUBMIT
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2.Put the password of the Admin

1.User name of the Admin

Login

(Figure 5.0 web site for ADMIN front page)

3.Login
4. Now we can see the sign-in and forgot the
password because the Admin can create and
change the profile of the student
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2.Vote of the student

1.The candidate name

ADMIN
PARTY LIST SCORE
President:
1.John Lerry Dequiña ------
2.Philmarc Ensencio ------
Vice president:
1.Jhon Walter Torres ------
2.Jhon Walter Torres ------

Log out

(Figure 6.0 web site for ADMIN second page)

4.Log out

Reminder: only the Admin can monitor and change to the election.
 CHAPTER V SAMMARY, FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND

RECOMMENDATION

This chapter presents the summary of the study, findings, conclusion and recommendations.

SUMMARY

This study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of the website Student Voting

System among students. Also, it includes the relationship between students and for those who are

running for any position.

This study answered the research question: Lessening the time in counting the result of

the votes. It will change the tradition in computing the votes manually to the use of this website.

This study aims to lessen the hard work of every individual.

FINDINGS

2. A manual voting requires an accurate count of votes in able to know the results

of the winning candidate after the voting process. the results of manual voting

came into question due to several factors regarding human error and miscount

of votes. How to ensure the accuracy in counting of votes in voting system of

Redeeming grace learning Center in order to be more reliable?

Our voting system will automatically count the vote. Only the admin can access

the system.

3. Many of the traditional problems faced in manual voting revolve around security

issues. Tallying and transmission of result are the root of unintended errors' . to

secure the integrity of the votes of the student?

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Only the admin can access the system and can edit, change and also see the findings

to the system.

4. It takes a lot of time in voting manually because the student needs to write

down their chosen candidate, and it is hassle for the teachers/administrator to

count the votes of the student one by one. Hence, it is very time consuming.

how to lessen the time of gathering of the results without counting manually?

- Our voting system will automatically count the vote and Determine who will

Win the student Council president and the member.

CONCLUSION

Base on are finding of this research, I conclude that are student voting system

can help many students and the Security of this application secured because only

the administrator can open and see The flow of the voting .The class officer and

the adviser will not consumed more time to count the Vote Because Our voting

system will automatically count the vote and Determine who will Win the

student Council president and the member.The expenses on the materials for

casting the vote will be less because Our Voting system will not use a bond

paper or other materials to conduct are system.

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RECOMMENDATION

As the results of the finding and conclusion of the study and following are hereby recommended.

1. Our research exciting, and useful, for individual that of the information that we need.

2. To make easy to use and comfortable.

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