DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE PERMANENT VOTERS CARD SYSTEM
ABSTRACT
The Public opinion and
democratic in universities
setting are the most
important determinant to
establish a good
administration. Voting is the process through which individuals convey their opinion and has the freedom to elect a
leader of the choice to signify and address the student’s issues. In today’s technological and knowledge age,
computerized related matters become widespread. E-voting is one of these substances and it is capable to deliver
appropriate, less costly, fast and secure services. The aim of this paper is to present an online permanent voters’
system (E- Voting) to be applied to Muni University student’s electoral body. Several security measures were
integrated into the E-Voting system in order to achieve an enhanced, speedy and accurate performance. A computer
software application was developed using PHP (Hypertext processor) programming language and MYSQL (My
Structural Query Language), a relational database management system in designing the database; tested and found
to have produced the expected results. It is about time that traditional voting in Muni University gives way to E-Voting
and hence simplifies the task for Electoral commission and his/her Officials.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION:
Muni University is a Public Campus established by the Uganda Government by Constitutional Instrument, 2013 No.31
[1]. The university is located in Arua district, 3Km South of Arua town in North-Western Uganda. Students at Muni
University are required to have free and fair elections for a democratic of the student’s union. Elections allow the
populace to choose their representatives to express their preferences for how they will be governed. Thus, the
integrity and accuracy of the election process are fundamental to the integrity of the democracy itself. Today, many
new technological innovations are developing the computerized security and fair exchange including electronic voting
which is becoming a popular trend. Our University, Muni, is also trying to keep abreast with the other established
Universities in every arena. Therefore, students from Muni start to replace electronic voting instead of traditional
paper voting for saving university resources and time. The
implementation of secure electronic voting systems is very critical in every student’s electoral body. The main goal of
e-Voting is to provide voters (students) a good environment so that students can cast their votes with minimum cost
and efforts. There are so many properties that have been proposed to make the e-Voting secure process. The
properties are: – Eligibility: Only eligible/registered students (voters) are permitted to cast and use the system.
Secrecy: There is no association between student’s identification and the system. Exceptionalness: No student can
cast his/her vote more than once. Freeness: A student does not gain any information (a receipt) which can be used to
prove to a coercer that she/he voted in a certain way. Justice: No incomplete result is obtainable before the
concluding result comes out. Confirmable: Students can verify that their votes were computed correctly.
Uncoercibility: No student can prove what he voted for others to prevent bribery. Effectiveness: The calculations can
be achieved within a realistic amount of period.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE PERMANENT VOTERS CARD SYSTEM