Final stages of eVote

Our team is already completing the 3rd phase of eVote. The hardware is complete and fully functional.

The remaining items to be completed are elements from the administrator application. Currently we are trying to find out how to acquire printing results from the printer once eVote has printed a receipt.

The scalability is also almost complete.

At this pace, we will have everything done in time for the third happy hour December 1, 2008.

Write-in Module

The writing module code has been written and today I met with Javier to test the data on the evote prototype device. While testing we found errors with pointers , but this was fixed by reviewing how to work with pointers in C.
The write in screen currently supports keypad navigation and selection of letters.
Errors have been seen when typing letter and backspaces and when moving through the alphabet (the selected action happens twice).
The write in module successfully returns the array of the write in information.

Database Dummy Data

JSAL has recently completed populating our database with dummy data, to simulate the scenario in a real life situation. The following tables were affected: Kiosk, Voter, and Official. We estimated how much data were to be put in the tables, based on real statistics:

Real Data:

• Kiosks: 35,200 [1]
• Registered Voters: 2,458,036 [2]

Dummy Data:

• Kiosks: 35,360
• Voters: 2,400,006
• Officials: 20,800

[1] http://www.ceepur.org/sobreCee/presidencia/juntaSubasta/PDF/CONVOCATORIA%20A%20LICITAR%2009-02%20MALETINES%20CASETAS.pdf
[2] http://www.ceepur.org/elecciones2008/index.html

Schedule Changes & Evote device program size limit

Due to an unforeseen Academic Recess (from Thursday, October 31 to Thursday, November 5) several Capstone course activities have been re-scheduled. There will not be a status report on Friday, November 6 since there has not been enough work days since the last presentation. Also, the Oral Test scheduled for next Monday, November 10 has been rescheduled for Monday, November 17.

In addition, several changes have been added to the Change Control document as the debugging program Javier is using for all programming related to the evote machine is beggining to signal that the program is reaching the 4kb limit.