Chapter II

Review of Related Literature The review of related literature for this thesis involves local and foreign literature either in books, previous school lessons, websites and other forms of media that helps us formulate in analyzing the system that is fitted for the school and its students.

Local Literature
College Student Council Voting System for Pangasinan State University Bayambang-Campus (Cayabyab, 2008) The College Student Council Voting System was software designed primarily for developing election applications. It was simple software, because it managed to secure the ballots and performed quick counterbalance.

Lucky 3 Voting System Mindanao State University (Echavez, Garay, Ratunil 2010) Their voting system is composed of a well secured and user-friendly system that makes their Student Council reliable. Their system creates a more level playing field for political parties their candidates and it even gives a chance for independent candidates to take on veteran players, this ultimately leads to a more dynamic and vibrant student-politics in Mindanao State University. Inocencio V. Ferrer Memorial School of Fisheries Automated Voting System (Soledad, Lamis, Valenzuela 2010) Their voting system is seemingly simple, and its advantages scream out at you. If implemented without hitches, it allows for fast, virtually instantaneous tabulation of votes.

Foreign Literature
University of Leeds electronic voting system (http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/online_resources/evoting/) The main advantage of interactive voting is that it supports instantaneous, anonymous (as well as known) interaction between the presenter and the audience. As a result, lectures become livelier, the presenter can easily stay aware of how well the audience has grasped the ideas he or she has been communicating, and both the presenter and the audience can receive instant feedback from each other.

Trent University ayePoll On-line Voting System SoftworksDev Engineering Team (Bila, Cakalli, Harrington, Harrington, Rosco 2005) It is a web based system that facilitates the running of elections and surveys online. This system has been developed by SoftworksDev to simplify the process of organizing elections and make it convenient for voters to vote remotely from their home computers while taking into consideration security, anonymity and providing auditioning capabilities.

LSA Elections Computerized Voting System India (Tantia, Agrawal 2008) The council elections were carried out in a much smoother and modern way. They saved on time, effort, paper and whole lot of sweat. This was the first time in India that such a thing was done, and while being modern and user-friendly, it was also ecofriendly as it saved a lot of paper that would have been used up as ballot paper.

Foreign Studies