CHAPTER I

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING

A. Introduction
The Student Council elections have always been a perennial activity for every
school. It is an activity wherein each student is required to choose from a set of
candidates who will represent each position in the Student Council. In order for the
student to accomplish this, the student must go through several processes. First the
student must go to the Administration Office if he is a registered voter, then goes to
the voting area and chooses the candidates he likes. After that, the student submits
the filled-up ballot form to the voting administrator in order for his votes to be cast.
Then the student is marked with an indelible ink to signify that he has already
voted.

After all the votes have been cast, the voting procedure goes again through several
processes. The votes are collected and are then counted, which could take several
hours to several days, depending on the volume of votes.

B. Background of the Study

The introduction of computers greatly enhances the speed and efficiency of voting
process. Results could be attained even right after the elections reducing the time
to a mere fraction compared to the time it takes if the voting is done manually. It
also increases the level of the voting experience because of multimedia
enhancements. The manual voting system of San Juan National High school lacks
the advantages of a Graphical User Interface that the Windows OS could offer.

It is in this effect that the proponent has decided to propose a system to improve
the existing manual voting system. The proponent aims to convert the existing
manual system into a Graphical User Interface to take advantage of the many
possibilities that a visual program could offer.

C. The Theoretical Framework

The following paradigm illustrates the theory of the input-process-output of the
system.

Existing System

Proposed System
Fig 1.0 Theoretical Framework of Existing and Proposed System The Theoretical
Framework of the study can be clearly explained through the Input-ProcessedOutput Paradigm. The Input represents those things that brought into the system
processing. Processing is the step that represents the transformation of the things
that entered the system as input. A series of processing that takes place to
complete the transformation. The system will be the one to provide the list of all the
candidates for each position, thus, giving the user the easiness and time-saving
effort compared to the manual system. The system will automatically tabulate the
votes of the user. The results of the processing are represented by the Output that
is the results of the tabulation for each candidate. The middle portion of the
paradigm represents the existing system, illustrating the manual process of
gathering information from the student. This serves as the proponents input, then
the process is the one wherein the proponents fills up the necessary forms, listing
down all the candidates, plus the effort of the administrator to tally all the votes
manually and compute the total number of votes for each candidates, thus,
resulting to the output wherein the administrator will produce the results of the
election.

D. Statement of the Problem

The study aims on the development and design of Student Council Voting to make it
more efficient for the students and staff in the campus. The study will answer the
following questions: 1. What are the perception of the student and staff on the
following items: a. Accuracy of casting votes

b. Speed of processing of the entire voting procedure. c. Security of vote ballots.

2. How speed affects the efficiency of Student Council Election in terms of paper
ballot system? 3. In case theres a need to deliver additional candidates information
during the voting procedure, is it possible to add one?

E. Significance of the Study

The focus of...