CSCE 361 Capstone Project - Voting System

Authors: Kalen Wallin, Thomas Walton

Developers: Kalen Wallin, Jayden Carlon, Cameron Collingham, Thomas Walton, Joshua Bellmyer

About

The Voting System is a web appplication created by a group of software engineering students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Features

• The main feature of the Voting System is the ability to vote. After voting, a user can view their ballot. After an election, a user can view the results.
• Users must create an account and log in before accessing a ballot.
• Ballots contain multiple electoral races and an issue to vote on.
• A public voter list is made avaible to any third party to view who has or hasn't voted. However, that third party will not be able to view whom they have voted for.
• Client-side Form Validation:
  • Email: Must be between 8 and 60 characters and contain an '@' symbol.
  • Password: Must be between 5 and 20 characters. While creating an account, you must type the same password twice.
  • Full Name: Must be between 5 and 20 characters.
  • Ballot: An option must be selected for each race.
• Elections and ballots inaccessible unless signed in.

Getting started

1. Clone the repository
2. Open the solution file
3. Press the play button at the top of the IDE (IIS Express/Voting System)
4. Create an account/log in
5. Select an election.
6. Vote
7. Press continue and select the same election to view your race selections.
8. Sign out when finished.

Public Voter List Instructions

1. Click on Public Voter List in the Navigation bar. (No account required)
2. View whether a voter has voted on the ongoing election. (Green if a user has voted/Red if a user hasn't voted)

Development Tools

• Visual Studio, .NET Framework, ASP.NET Core 3.1, Razor Pages
• Languages: HTML, CSS, C#, and Javascript.
• Operating System: Windows
• Testing Framework: MSTest

Database

• Entity Framework Core
• Uses LINQ to query data, prevent attacks
• SQL Server/Local DB

Design

• Model-View-Controller
  • Razor pages has a view (UI) and a controller to handle input from the user and output information from the database (Model)
  • There are additional controllers to separate concerns of each class (User, Election, Ballot, Issue).

Testing

• MSTest Unit Tests for Elections, Issues, Candidates, Users, and Ballot controllers.
• Visual Studio Test Runner to run and display test results.

Contributing

This is a private repository with respect to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Academic Integrity Policy. There shall be no contributions from anyone outside of our private group.

Additional Notes

Everything that happens to the GitHub Repository will be sent to the discord server in the channel #git-commit-log