Information Management System for Electronic Voting in Support of the Schieffelin Award for Excellence in Teaching

The purpose of this research was to evaluate, automate, refine and develop a management information system that facilitated data collection, organization, query, analysis, and counting of ballots submitted over the Internet/intranet with regard to the Rear Admiral John J. Schieffelin Award for Excellence in Teaching. Research included conducting a detailed analysis of the current system (reengineering), preparing hardware and software requirements for an automated system, determining security requirements for an Intranet based voting system and implementing a prototype to demonstrate feasibility. The "Rear Admiral John J. Schieffelin Award for Excellence in Teaching", has traditionally been a manual system interwoven with several legacy systems that make analysis, voter response and data collection difficult. Development of an Internet/ intranet based Information System coupled with a Decision Support System for statistical analysis, streamlines the flow of information, thus allowing for more robust analysis/querying as well as possibly increasing voter response by providing a friendly user interface that allows quick and easy ballot submissions.Naval Postgraduate School Monterey CA is the author of 'Information Management System for Electronic Voting in Support of the Schieffelin Award for Excellence in Teaching', published 2001 under ISBN 9781423526087 and ISBN 1423526082.