...Manila to obtain a college education. The University of Cagayan Valley started modestly. Its course offering during its first year of academic operation limited to Elementary Teacher’s Certificate. Soon after, other courses were offered. The imperative to innovate, the reason to create faster, stronger, better solutions that advance society in significant ways these are the forces driving the researchers to study at expanding the realm of what’s possible. Every Election happened in a country, school or in community people doubted how their votes secured in a ballot or how can they be sure that their votes are tallied by a personnel in a voting station or precinct. The researcher seeks a fully automated voting system that is secure, accurate and reliable so that the system to guarantee elections the voters can trust the implemented system in our school. In today’s modern age where computer has become a way of life, it is evident that a majority of the countries institutions...
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...Some countries that had used an automated election system similar to the one that the Commission on Elections bought from Smartmatic have reverted back to manual tallying and counting of votes. Among these countries are Germany, Switzerland and Ireland. In 2009, Germany’s Federal Supreme Court (SC) ruled against the automated election system because the use of electronic voting machines is contrary to the democratic and public character that elections must have. The German Supreme Court also noted the electronic system’s flaws similar to those that Filipino experts have been warning the Comelec and the public about. The biggest complaint against electronic ballot casting, reading and counting systems is their lack of transparency. Nobody sees how the machines are reading each ballot. Then the machines report results that no one can verify. Like the PCOS machines bought by the Philippine government, the machines in Germany did not print our receipts containing what the voter wrote down on his or her ballot. Experts from CenPEG, AEStch and other institutions have been repeating that the problem in Philippine elections is not in the manual voting and the counting and tabulation that the Comelec officials, representatives of all parties, people from accredited watchdogs and the media can witness on blackboards or whiteboards. The cheating is in the transmission of results and the fraudulent canvass. With the midterm election tomorrow only hours away, the Precinct Count Optical...
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...Elections automated University-wide By Akemi B. Aida and Nikki Q. Angulo THOMASIANS did not have to endure long hours to know the results of the recent student council elections, with polls computerized University-wide for the first time this year. All faculties and colleges, including UST’s two high schools, adopted the new polling system. Last year, only 10 colleges and faculties had automated elections. Except for a brief power interruption last Feb. 20, which delayed voting at the Conservatory of Music, Education High School and UST High School, Tabon said the new polling scheme was “implemented well.” “The loss of electricity supply caused a slight delay in voting in some colleges. But it did not affect the voters’ turnout because the election proceeded after the power supply returned,” said Abadenzio Rexzy Tabon, chairman of the Central Commission on Elections (Comelec). Overall, voter turnout did not improve. In last year’s elections, 22,515 Thomasians voted. This year, 22,229 students cast their votes, more than half of roughly 40,000 students in the University. Preparations Tabon said a University-wide automated election was first proposed during the summer planning of Central Comelec officials. Thereafter, the Central Comelec met with officials of college-level Comelec units to discuss the plan. The College of Nursing and the Faculty of Civil Law were the first to have automated elections two years ago. Lack of resources hampered previous efforts...
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...more registrants trooped to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) office at Magsaysay Park during Wednesday's final day of registration for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections. While many of them made it, many failed to make it on time and blamed Comelec for its snail-paced processing. Still, others were hoping Comelec will extend the registration period. Analiza Mantimo, 15, of Tamugan Calinan, said it will be disappointing if ever she would not be registered. Mantino added that she had been at the Comelec office twice, but still she has not been accommodated. "Dili namo masabtan ang sistema nila diri. Bisan ako na mag pa transfer ra, wa gani ka sulod didto unya katulo na ni nako na adlaw diri (I can’t understand their system here. I just need to file for transfer of registration and yet I never made it into their office even on my third day of lining up)," said Marites Premitiba, 44, of Dumoy, Talomo District. "Sa kadaghan sa mga registrants kulang lang jud ang 10-day registration. Dagsa kayo ang mga mag pa rehistro unya pulo lang ka adlaw ilang gitagana para didto sa mga wala pa ka rehistro. Kulang ra pud kaayo ang adlaw (With the number of registrants, the ten-day registration is not enough. There were mobs every day. Ten days is not enough)," said May Ann Ambos, 15, of Tamugan Calinan. Exhausted registrants were still seen at the long lines Wednesday as they waited for several hours just to be registered. Others were eating while waiting for the line to...
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...CHAPTER 2 FOREIGN LITERATURE “Electronic Voting Literature” Voting on the internet using PC's everyday offers only weak security, but its main disadvantages are in the areas of anonymity and protection against coercion and/or vote selling. The Presidential elections of 2000 brought national attention to problems with current American methods of casting and counting votes in public elections. Most people believe that the current system should be changed; there is much disagreement on how such changes should be made. Dr. Michael Shamos of CMU provides a sharp counterpoint [6] to Neumann and Mercuri's views. While his “Six Commandments” summary of requirements for a voting system is very similar to others' requirements, he's less afraid of the catastrophic failures and sweeping fraud made possible by imperfections in electronic voting machines actually occurring in a real election. Shamos is also much less impressed with paper ballots than are Neumann and Mercuri. He places a great deal of faith in decentralization to make fraud difficult to commit and easy to detect. Dr. Shamos even likes DRE machines. (We must take into account the fact that this paper was written ten years ago, long before the 2000 elections and before more modern mathematical results like Chaum's; some of Dr. Shamos' opinions may have changed since then. While Dr. Neumann's talk cited here is of similar age, his pessimism with regard to machines has had little reason for change.) Rebecca Mercuri invented...
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...Automated Election System Does automation = clean elections? Possible Problems: Preliminary Results Technical Briefing What is the AES? l “A system using appropriate technology which has been demonstrated in the voting, counting, consolidating, canvassing, and transmission of election result, and other electoral process” process” Public perception of the AES It would lead to clean elections l Cheating would be impossible in an automated election l AES System l Election Management System (EMS) Configuration of precinct data l Election Mark– Up Language (EML) Mark– l l Precinct– Precinct–Count Optical Scan (PCOS) System l Precinct Machine BOC Computer l Consolidation / Canvassing System (CCS) l PCOS Machine SMARTMATIC AUTOMATED ELECTION SYSTEM (SAES 1800) SAES 1800 lPrecinct Count Optical Scan / Optical Mark Reader (OMR) • Detects the absence or presence of a mark in predefined positions on a form SAES 1800 Components RF Key Thermal Printer •2-1/4 inch roll paper •Rated to last 5 years Digital Scanner •4-bit mono – color scanner •16 shades of gray Processor And Memory Not Specified Compact Flash (CF) Card Input / Output Ports •CF Card Reader •UTP Ethernet Port •Disabled USB •RJ – 11 Modem Port Ballot Box Cast and Return •Buttons Disabled Display • Touch screen, mono-color display •Quarter VGA in size, 320x240 pixels Ballot Boxes with Transparent Panels Compartments the Ballot Box in Transparent Panels ...
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...would not do their jobs properly, the citizens should ask for their resignation, impeachment or dismissal and their replacement by the ethical, the courageous and the competent. That is why according to ARTICLE V of the Philippine Constitution, the right to suffrage may be exercised by all citizens of the Philippines who are not disqualified by law and who are at least eighteen years of age and have resided in the country for at least one year in the place where they plan to vote at least six months preceding the elections. No literacy, property, or other substantive requirement shall be imposed on the exercise of suffrage. Furthermore, the provision goes on that The Congress shall provide a system for securing the secrecy and sanctity of the ballot as well as a system for absentee voting by qualified Filipinos abroad. The Congress shall also design a procedure for the disabled and the illiterates to vote without the assistance of other persons. Until then, they shall be allowed to vote under existing laws and such rules as the Commission on Elections may promulgate to protect the secrecy of the ballot. Suffrage as conferred by the constitutional provision is not a natural right of the citizens, but a political right intended to enable them to participate in the process of government to assure it derives...
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...to be successive even if it was plagued by violence, poll fraud and bitterly divisive electoral protests. But in order to have a much better election, the Government started an automated election in 1992. It was begun with “Operation MODEX” which stands for Modernization and Excellence. This MODEX aimed to modernize the electoral process from voting to proclamation, systematize the method of registration, clean up and update the list of voters and provide continuing election education to the public. Unfortunately, MODEX was stricken heavy blows that crippled its implementation. After that, PHOTOKINA (Photokina Marketing Corporation) exists in 1999 but the implementation did not happen because the Supreme Court declared their automation contract void in 2004. Then here comes the SMARTMATIC- (Total Information Management) TIM who won the bid to supply the Philippines with an automated election system in 2009. With the help of PCOS Machines, this automated election in today’s year (2010) became really successful. After so many elections that have passed, I think the Philippines is still blessed because of the more successful 2010 election. It is very obvious that the crime became lesser than in the manual election. It gave less cheating and what we call “dagdag-bawas” because it is mostly automated that the cheater finds it very hard...
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...1 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE Introduction Now more than ever, technology is changing on how we vote. Voting schemes have evolved from counting hands on early days to systems that includes papers, punch cards, mechanical levers and optical machines. Electronic voting systems provide some characteristic different from the traditional voting technique. As an effect of vast change in modern technology, several techniques in voting arises in order to solve various drawbacks like time consuming and large volume of paper works can be consumed. So the solutions are televoting, android phone voting and web voting. Televoting was also known as voting via SMS text messages. Mobile phone connects through GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) in which it searches for cells in the immediate vicinity. Televoting uses a format in which the public viewer follows and replies error whenever they send an invalid format. Like in a real television shows, televoting was a very common method that opens the public to vote its favorite contestant to remain and not to be evicted. The outcome will be decided by the number of votes in which a contestant garners. On the other hand, android phone voting and web voting has this similarity. Both use an internet in order to gain access and make vote counts. In web voting, it uses a browser to view the page and users just simply browse, follow some steps and vote, and if successful, the vote is counted. The most common method before a user...
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...Electronic Voting Literature Review Computer scientists who have done work in, or are interested in, electronic voting all seem to agree on two things: * Internet voting does not meet the requirements for public elections * Currently widely-deployed voting systems need improvement Voting on the Internet using every day PC's offers only weak security, but its main disadvantages are in the areas of anonymity and protection against coercion and/or vote selling. It's such a truly bad idea that there seems to be no credible academic effort to deploy it at all. The Presidential elections of 2000 brought national attention to problems with current American methods of casting and counting votes in public elections. Most people believe that the current system should be changed; there is much disagreement on how such changes should be made. The MIT/Caltech researchers [1] “see a promising future for electronic voting, despite its problems today” (under a few conditions). They advocate using the methods currently in use which result in the lowest average numbers of “uncounted, unmarked, and spoiled ballots,” like in-precinct optical scanning. Their report even proposes a framework for new voting system with a decentralized, modular design. Other researchers have done work in electronic voting; while they may not explicitly mention voting from remote poll sites, their work is nonetheless relevant to any effort at designing or implementing a remote poll site voting system. Lorrie...
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... The motto of the project is to build an enterprise site, which should be able to allow people to cast their vote online. SYSTEM ANALYSIS Existing System Remote voting is exercise into two different ways. 1.proxy voting The person who is unable to be physically present authorized other person on behalf of him. 2. close envelope ballet In this the person cast is voter, enclosed in an envelope and post to register post. The problem with this system is that not always the ballets are riched in time. The proxy person may exercise other ballet then the one synthezised the person. Proposed System In propose system remote and user’s can exercise .There voter within any favour using this system any level of voting like ,lokha sab voting,rajya sab voting etc. In the proposed system we can get the result without manually counting.The computerized counting is simple and we can access any information of any party. Advantage of the proposed system 1. Time saving 2. Working load reduced to a large extent 3. Less prone to errors 4. Information available at time 5. Man power reduced 6. Many tasks are automated 7. It also provide security for the data Modules description 1. Election commissioner: It check about the user details like id proof and no proxy voting cannot be done. This is election commissioner home page . 2.Generate voter id:It check details like name,password,state,address,block,area about the...
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...Topic: “The effects of road traffic congestion on residential decision- making of inhabitants of the city of Accra- A case study of communities along three congested routes” Transportation is essentially a response to the mobility needs of people, and this must be done in a timely fashion in order for people to realize its full benefits. Consequently, transportation plays a crucial role in the socio-economic and politico-cultural development of people and their communities. However, there are some related problems (such as congestion, mobility gaps, urban sprawl, and emissions amongst others) that come with it. In Ghana, transportation is almost synonymous with road transport as it is the major means by which peoples’ mobility needs are answered on daily basis. Road traffic congestion in the city of Accra has almost become an’ acceptable norm’ since residents have to live with this phenomenon every passing day of their lives. The factors responsible for this trend are as follows: growth in the population of Accra over the last 15 years (and this has been estimated to double in the next 20 years) associated with a continuing trend of reduction in population density; expansion in built-up area; growth in per capital income (which has also been estimated to have increased five folds over the last 15 years) with a concomitant increase in car ownership. Currently over 70% of major roads in Accra and Kumasi-the two biggest cities in the country- are said to be congested and should the...
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...what it is? Have you already experienced to vote? Yes, this is our time where we can choose who will be the next leader this coming election. My Dear Filipino Youth, do you know what will your vote means to our country? This is our time, we are given a privileged, we are given the freedom, we are Filipino and we want to progress as part of the Nation. How many are registered to vote? Many people are registered to vote, but choose not to vote Do you know that Voting means better services, better policies and law and a brighter future from us? Voting in any type of election from local races to presidential primaries provides an important way to voice your opinions regarding elected leaders. Voting decides our future by selecting officials who reflects our own view. Therefore, Voting is essential and should exercise by everyone because one vote can make a difference. Now, what must we do? How can we help? First and Foremost, Let us go out and vote! Let us exercise our right of suffrage. Suffrage is voting, it is our right and responsibility to choose our candidates wisely. Don’t be blind by their amazing Platforms. Seek for the truth, nothing but the truth. My Dear Fellow Citizens, are you still not a voter? Then let us be involved with promoting a clean and peaceful election. BE ACTIVE, BE RESPONSIBLE, Promote effective governance. BE A LEADER and MAKE A LEADER! So vote wisely and let’s make a change. Always Remember, If you don’t like what is going on with...
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...Benefits Elections Systems CMGT 442 May 07, 2012 David M. Conway University of Phoenix Human Resources at Huffman Trucking, has a request for the development and installation of a Benefits Elections System for their company. The Benefits Election System will need to support both union and non-union employees, along with tracking and reporting the employee benefits associated with Huffman Trucking Company. Implementing the system will be placed throughout all locations for Huffman Trucking. Huffman Trucking will need to think about security and risks associated with the start-up of the Benefits Elections System. Summary Huffman Trucking was established in 1936 since then the company has grown into a national transportation company with over 1,400 employees and hubs in California, Missouri, and New Jersey with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. Huffman Trucking maintains the mission of being an ever growing company that keeps up with time changes and technology. Objective A Benefit Election System has to be looked at from many different angles, such as security and risk. Employee and company information must remain secure to protect the company from law suit and theft of client and personal information. Benefits Elections System Benefits Election System is a system that allows employees to elect their benefits in one central location, such as health insurance, Aflac, or vision. It allows the...
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...To what extent do different electoral systems produce different outcomes? In this essay I will assess the outcomes of Additional Member system, First Past the Post system and the Closed Party List system. The F-P-T-P system is used to elect the members of House of Commons and local government in England and Wales. Voters select candidates, and do so by marking his or her name with an ‘X’ on the ballot paper. This reflects the principle of ‘one person, one vote’. The Additional Members system is used in Scottish parliament, Welsh assembly, and Northern Ireland Assembly and Greater London assembly. It is a mixed system made up of F-P-T-P and party-list elements. The Regional party list (or the closed party list) is used to elect the European Parliament. There are number of large multimember constituencies. Political parties compile lists of candidates to place before the electorate, in descending order of preference. Electors vote for parties not for candidates, parties are allocated seats in direct proportion to the votes they gain in each regional constituency. In this essay I will argue that electoral systems produce different outcomes. One of the ways in which first-past-the-post voting system produces different outcomes to other parties is that it leads to no clear correlation between number of vote’s casts and seats won. For example in 2005 general election Labour received 40.7% of the votes but won 413 seats and also during the 2010 general elections Conservatives won...
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