Abstract:
This project is a web-based system that can be accessed at any polling station. This work was designed to aid the framework for an existing system which is manually based having demerit of inaccuracy and poor performance. The system was implemented using HTML formatting language, My SQL database management far data keeping and PHP programming language for the server-side which is used to manage Real Time tallying and display of votes at the polling station. Voters can be verified by a- polling officer and given digits to feed in during vote casting so that they can access the candidates. It has a provision for the verifying officer to long in so as to access where he can feed in the NIN number or IDs of voters to generate a cord that will permit them to vote. The verifying officer can feed in the NIN -number to check whether the voter is in the database of particular polling Station -so as to allow them to vote. The voter is also given his/her privacy to vote for his candidate of Choice.
The total number -of voters at that polling station and the number of voters who have finished voting are displayed On a screen for the onlookers to view the progress of voting. The display screen does not show the candidate the voter hag voted for. and on a click. after voting, the tally of votes is automatically displayed on the display screen. And. if the number of-registered voters is reached, the tally of votes of respective candidates is displayed on The display screen.
