Web System to Administer Electoral Processes in an Academic Community

Abstract

This paper presents a web system to administer electoral processes of representatives carried out in universities. The web system has different functionalities, such as the announcement of elections, registration of candidates and voters, electronic voting, publication of results, among others. The representatives that participate in electoral processes are teachers, students and administrative staff of the university. The main objective of the web system is to encourage the participation of the academic community in these types of processes. A comparative analysis of existing similar systems is presented, where some important features are considered, such as the possibility of the system to adapt to different devices, email notifications, vote printing, customizable interface, user authentication, text and graphic results, security, among others. The requirements gathering and the implementation of the web system are shown.