Oriza E-Voting Pilkades — Digital Village Head Elections with VVPAT

Village head elections need an accessible voting process, efficient counting and verifiable evidence that the selection displayed to the voter matches the vote recorded. Disputes, tallying errors and manipulation risks require both technical safeguards and independent operational controls.

Traditional elections require manual voter-list checks, paper-ballot distribution and hand counting. These steps are labor-intensive and can introduce tallying mistakes. Replacing paper with a screen is insufficient unless an independent audit remains possible.

Oriza E-Voting Pilkades combines a touchscreen voting booth with a VVPAT (Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail) design. Voters make one selection, inspect it before final confirmation, and the paper record is retained in a sealed container for independent auditing rather than taken home.

The concept illustrates voter validation, locked candidate choices, ballot casting, electronic tabulation and comparisons with retained paper records. The supplied video is a concept simulation; security testing, hardware qualification and governance procedures remain necessary before any official election use.

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• Election area configuration using province, regency/city, district and village hierarchies.
• Election committee, polling station, candidate, voter register and role administration.
• Voter verification and duplicate-voting prevention design.
• Touchscreen ballot showing candidate name, photograph and number.
• Automatic printed vote record (VVPAT) concept for voter inspection and audits.
• Polling-station and village-level tabulation and monitoring dashboards.
• Activity logs and reconciliation of physical audit records against digital tallies.

The proposed polling station equipment combines a touchscreen/tablet or computer, ballot-record printer and Laravel backend, with local networking as a possible deployment configuration. Offline/online operation, synchronization and integrity safeguards require device and security testing before rollout.

Status: product development and demonstration, not an official election deployment. The demo is intended for reviewing the user experience and discussing requirements with election administrators.

Note: all scenes and vote counts shown in the video are illustrative. Result integrity and audit independence must be verified through testing and supervised election procedures.

• Potentially faster vote counting and result consolidation.
• Simple voting experience centered on a single touchscreen interaction.
• Independent paper evidence for recounts and audits.
• Improved process transparency through activity logging and audit procedures.

These are development goals, not measured results of an official election deployment.

Web backend: PHP 8.3, Laravel, MySQL 8 and a Filament administration dashboard. Proposed polling hardware: touchscreen, VVPAT printer, local network and access/audit controls. Prior to production: penetration testing, end-to-end electronic-to-paper verification, independent audits, failure recovery and regulatory review.