COMPUTERIZED VOTING SYSTEM

CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY
It has been a long time, that man has found an increasing need to be organized. Such organization result into community and society from leaders emerged. Different means and method are employed in the selection of leaders.
The 20th century has witnessed a spectacular steady stream of technological advancement in completing both hardware and software, and as a result of it is used in many field. No doubt, the advent of computer with its advantage of exceptional fast processing speed of storing, retrieving of data have made computer usage and most in some field especially in the area where large records has to be passed. So therefore electoral process is therefore not an exception
This is how election has been taken place in Osun State Polytechnic in the past. Student union government is always run manually that is where all the present election, there are multiple voting, there is no adequate led to the inventing of the computerized voting system, which will be used in student union government election.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
This project is carried out to design a computerized voting system in order to have an accurate result in the student union government election in Osun State Polytechnic iree.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT
The purpose of this project is to develop on interactive software package using basic to automate the voting system of the student union government of Osun State Polytechnic (OSPOLY) free and to achieve the following objective.
i. To register the data of all voters and candidate ii. To produce password for each voter iii. To present the election result in a time. iv. To remove on unnecessary duplication

1.4 AIM AND OBJECTIVE OF STUDY
1. The system should be decorate in nature that is, it should permit only eligible that each eligible voters to vote (eligibility) and it should ensure that each eligible voter can vote only once.
2. There should be accuracy in the functional system i.e the system functionalist should ensure that nobody can modify the result of the voting by eliminating a valid vote or counting an invalid vote in the final tally.
3. The system should allow a variety of ballot formats and it should be customized to the specific characteristics of the voting process i.e there must be flexibility.
4. The system should not pose any restriction on the location from which a voter can cast a vote i.e mobility.

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The project has contributed to the society in order to achieve the following
1. It contributes to the knowledge of the society in the sense that it make them to know that computer can store many data and the act of retuning the data.
2. It makes the society to know that they can make use of this project in their community election.

1.6 SCOPE OF STUDY
The project work covers the following are
i. It serves all the total number of student in Osun State Polytechnics ii. It contains the database of all eligible voters iii. It contains all the address of all the candidate and all the voters

1.7 LIMITATION OF PROJECT
The project does not cover areas like giving access to the lectures and the non teaching staff to vote and it cannot be accessed via internet.