ABSTRACT
Voting is a very important process in the Nigerian
political system. It is one of the means
and most effective method of ensuring a legitimate government through popular
participation. To enthrone sound
democracy and stability in the political system of the Enugu state a system of rig-free voting has
to be put in place.
The system would among others discourage double
voting, forgery or hoarding of electoral materials massive transfer of ballot
papers destruction of ballot boxes, inflation of electron figures and
unnecessary delay in pronouncement of election result. This could be achieved by an on-line voting
system to remove the difficult administrative tasks of the electoral body which
regulated the conduct of election in Enugu
state. This basically forms the goal set
to achieve in this study.
Therefore this project aims at alleviating the
incidence of rigging and introduction of an organized procedure of voting which
is the bana of socio-economic and political progress in Enugu state.
ORGANIZATION OF THE WORK
This work is organized into seven (7) chapters. Chapter one, discussed among other things,
the introduction, states of the problems, purpose of the study, aims and objectives
as well as the scope of the study. Also
discussed under this chapter are the limitations of the study and finally the
assumptions made.
Chapter two did a review of related literature, and
this chapter was not substituted.
Chapter three gave account of the description and
analysis of the existing system, the fact-finding method used the organization
structure. Also the chapter discussed
the objective of the existing system, input process and output analysis,
information flow diagrams, problems of the existing system and finally the
justification of the new system.
Chapter four gave an account of the design of the new
system requirement.\chapter five was based on the implementation, program
design, pseudo code and program flowchart.
Chapter six is based on the documentation.
Chapter seven includes recommendation, conclusion as well as the definition of terms used.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
The advancement made in technology over the past few
years are astounding. The computer alone
has progressed at a remarkable pace, and updates are continually
occurring. Along with the progress of
the computer comes the transformation of the virtual world. The Internet is a fairly recent concept that
has profoundly affected our daily lives.
As with anything new the Internet possesses various mysteries. Research is being conducted to determine the
possibilities of an on-line voting.
Internet voting opens the door to all sorts of possibilities for our
state voting future.
Therefore, voting is a means of selecting or choosing
leaders, it does not apply only to local government, states and federal
government of Nigeria
but also in different institutions and social organization. The conduct of elections in a democratic
society is very important not only because through it a change of government is
effected but also because voting is the main form of political participation
for most people. For democracy to be
sound, it should be anchored on election free from fraud.
Over the years, the voting operation has been put
under a manual system of operation which mostly results to inaccuracy and
ineffective election. It is gradually
being realized that much faster accurate, effective and efficient system is
needed to be adopted. Here on-line is to
be instituted to handle voting.
The on-line voting system ensures that each intended
voter is checked whether he/she is registered or not, if he/she is not
registered, the system refuses him voting.
Also it checks whether he/she has voted for that particular
election. This on-line voting system
prevents a situation where a particular candidate seizes the voters’ cards, and
uses them to vote for himself. Hence the
rigging associated with the manual voting systems has been completely
handled. The system also takes care of
result calculation of each candidate in particular election and the percentage
scored in that election. This eliminates
rigging associated with the calculation and counting of votes.
A means of showing the various outputs is also adopted
by the system the output can either be displayed on the screen or a hard copy
of it can be produced depending on the choice of the user. This prevents international and unintentional
typographical errors in showing the results of the elections.
With an on-line voting, voters can be cast only once
it will also afford people who are sick and unable to go to polling stations to
cast their vote to do so. It should be
noted however that on-line voting will not replace the existing ballot forms,
but is offered as a supplementary way of casting a ballot.
- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The inefficiency of voting process in Enugu has resulted in a lot of problems. These problems have continued to obstruct the
peace of democracy in Enugu
because the choice of a capable candidate is not encouraged by the current
system.
These problems include
- High rigging during election process
- A single voters casting his vote multiple times
- Inefficient and inaccurate counting of voters by officers concerned.
- Long queues observed at polling stations
- Illegible voters casting their vote
- Loss of votes due to either wrong voting of the use case of any accident occurring during transportation of the statement of result and other electoral materials to the collection centers.
- PURPOSE OF STUDY
The purpose of this study is to design and implement
an on-line voting system. The study will
activate democracy and ensure that the popular choice emerges victories in any
local government election conducted in Enugu
state.
- AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The main aim of this project work is to design an
on-line voting system which among others be able to achieve the following
targets;
- Each voter will be able to vote only once
- Nobody will have access to the votes before the official opening of the electronic ballot box.
- The votes cast cannot be intercepted, modified or diverted.
- The on-line site will resist any attack
- Only registered voters will have access to the application
- Voters will be protected against any attempt of identified theft.
- The secrecy of the vote will be guaranteed
- Rigging of the election will be controlled
- The system will not accept vote outside the voting period
- It put to an end the indiscriminate alteration of election result by any officer of the electoral commission of Enugu state.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM A CASE STUDY OF ENSIEC ENUGU
