Isa Agaie Dawodu and Lawrence Bunmi Adewole
Election maleficent and the after-math of court litigatigations particularly, the 2019 and that of 2023 elections whereby, courts (which is usually at the beck-and-call of the incumbent) decides who won the ballots casted by the electorates in Nigeria; has lingered over time. The essence of this paper is to develop an Application Program Interface (API) which is user friendly with either simple or android phone for both single and bulk spatial query capabilities and automated voting using Jos South LGA of Plateau State, Nigeria as a proto-type. The proposed e-Voting system was designed with the goal of solving optimal challenges encountered by the traditional balloting; and some of which include precise rule-based on eligibility determination, appropriate module, robust access list creation and management as well as remote balloting. The application relies on the file geo-database obtained from National Population Commission (NPopC) but compatible with Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) on MySQL file format and the list of districts wards, localities, PUs and service area or routes to determine where each eligible voter’s vote shall be tallied. This solves the distance barrier that has denied many citizens from exercising their civil rights. Age and nationality are two other major factors used by the application to determine the eligibility of voters. The relationship among various entities in the database model is either one-one or one-many in a MySQL file format. The file geo-database (FGDB) obtained was for ease of integration into the three ends of the API.The WampServer being the ‘Desk-Top Server’ at the back end of the app controlled by the dBA; the mid-end is between the front-end and the dBA that convey all transactions; and the front-end is exclusively for the voter. But all operations are monitored and under the control of the database administrator (dBA). Each of this end is being managed by specific module interactively and seamlessly and robust enough to carry all election stakeholders along in election transactions before, during and after the election results are displayed with the RF-ID of the dBase, which is managed by the third party as it is done in other clients.
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