Web-based election system for students' unions of faculties in Sri Lankan universities

Abstract

The aim of the study is to analyze the current traditional election system and suggest an online election system, which will allow people to cast votes in a more convenient way. This paper includes the initial reading to understand the way of traditional voting system, different stages and the issues related to the traditional way that gave us spark to develop the online voting system. This paper also discusses the advantages of the online voting system which motivate different governmental and non-governmental organizations, other universities, institutes, schools to develop the online voting system. This paper reports about the key issues, strengths and the weaknesses of this approach. And also, we have discussed the design of the project and the information on the tools and techniques that we used to implement this application. Included the testing part that is obviously important to the success of any information system.