Proposed E-Voting System for Malinao National High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Schools are allowed to organize student's organizations. The problem arises on the manual tabulation and validation of votes. For the past school years, Malinao NHS employed a manual process of election and had several issues, so the researcher came up with this capstone project. The developed system stores data and information of the election system of different organizations of the school. The salient features of the system are the admin and voter's dashboard. The user of the admin dashboard holds the responsibility of creating positions, creating profile of the candidates, adding voters and displaying results. On the other hand, the voter's dashboard is only limited to updating account and casting votes. E-VS operates on computer devices with windows 7 and up operating system. It is compatible with any type of browser and higher versions, but much better in Google Chrome. E-VS requires XAMPP or WAMPP to run and to provide a local host internet connection in order to save data to database.

METHODS

The descriptive research design was used to describe and present the manual election system and the proposed system of the researcher. Developmental research method was also used because the researcher systematically developed and evaluated the proposed election system. System features were evaluated after the conceptualization and development to secure the stability and accuracy of the system. The software development methodology employed by the study is the Rapid Application Development. It has 4 stages: Requirement Planning, User Design, Construction and Cut-over. In RAD method, the client will quickly provide feedback regarding the delivery of the requirements.Interview, empirical observation and questionnaire were the instruments or tools used for gathering data.

RESULTS

The system was evaluated according to ISO/IEC 21050:1. Quality Model focused on the quality characteristics such as functional suitability, performance efficiency, compatibility, usability, reliability, security, maintainability and portability. After tabulation of results, almost all of the evaluators gave an overall rating of far more than what is expected along each of the quality characteristics.

DISCUSSIONS

The evaluation of the system resulted to an affirmative response from the evaluators, although there are still minor concerns that needed to be revised. The assessment of the evaluators is concordant with each other, however, the system still needed to be refined to address its weaknesses and improve its strengths.