Desarrollo e implementación de un prototipo de una interfaz web para los alumnos de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil en épocas de elecciones para cargos en la Federación de Estudiantes.

Abstract

The present study explains the automation of the electronic voting process for the student elections of the UCSG student federation implemented on a web platform. This project is a technological prototype proposal, which considered similar implementations of other countries where higher education institutions have these projects working as an internal student voting system in order to optimize the university election process. The main objective of this project is to facilitate students their right to vote digitally in a safe manner through a web interface that would be added to the existing page of the university, and also to speed up the results of the counting in a safe way through a web portal that will be in charge of the staff designated by the UCSG for the monitoring and administration of the electoral process. For the implementation of the project prototype to be viable, Microsoft Office 365 tools were used to reduce costs in the technological infrastructure and use the institutional email accounts of the UCSG so, by this method the students make the electronic vote. Besides, with these tools, it was possible to implement the electronic voting process, such as the creation of lists, the registration of the electoral register, the opening of the election, student verification (email), the registration of the votes, the closing of the election, and the implementation of a web portal developed in WordPress, the proposals and candidates for each of the different positions were published.