KingMaker
KingMaker is an election aide targeted for the contestant of the Urban Local Body Election. It was launched in 2005 for the Surat City Municipal Corporation and was heavily used and appreciated. It has a success ratio of over 95% i.e over 95% of the candidates who used KingMaker as a part of their electoral excercise had succeeded in the elections.
Facilities:
- Voters can be grouped by the electoral ward, age, address, election booth, caste, creed, etc.
- Facility to create custom demographic attirbute and classify the voters by them is provided.
- An mechanism for Monitoring and Efficient Management of Complete Voting Process is provided by the software
- Targets can be specified for Workers based on Wards, residential address, caste, age or custom defined demographic parameters.
- Performance of workers can be measured based on the set targets.
- The status of voters during voting can be updated either by individual update or a batched update.
- The status of a voter can be put to "Voted", "Yet To Vote", "Not Going to Vote", "Not Present in The city" or to any custom defined status
- A Facility is provide to print Voter's Slip
- Highly Customised and Targeted Communication brochures can be printed for a group of voter created based on various demographic parameters or to custom selection of voters.
- The software can work for multiple candidate contensting in different or same wards.
- Workers can be assigned for candidates, wards, booths, address, etc.
- Vote Forecasting based on present trends is possible.
- Facility to do Vote Estimaton based on various demographic parameters and confidence values is provided.
- A dynamic and fast searching of a particular voter / voters is provided which is most helpful on the day of the election which allows searching based on any of the criteria of the user.
Salient Features:
- The Software supported multiple keyboard layouts and Input Method Editors for ease of use.
- Prepopulated Complete Voters list in Gujarati Language so that it is ready for the show just on installation.
- KingMaker is bilingual with the default interface in the local language.
- It comes ready with the voter's database for Surat City.
Reports:
KingMaker provides many important reports for taking proper and infromed decision. Some of which are as listed below :
- Reports detailing status wise Voters with filtering and/or grouping faclities on attributes like age, sex, booth, ward or any other custom parameter.
- Contestant Wise Target Achievement with filtering and/or grouping faclities on attributes like age, sex, booth, ward or any other custom parameter.
- Worker Wise Target Achievement with filtering and/or grouping faclities on attributes like age, sex, booth, ward or any other custom parameter.
- Reports detailing demograhic statistics of voters with filtering and/or grouping faclities on attributes like age, sex, booth, ward or any other custom parameter.
- Reports highlighting trends of voting.
- Reports predicting outcome of the electoral excercise
Forms:
Kingmaker was desinged so as to take the maximum output by using minimum forms. A very small number of forms that are given with KingMaker are as detailed below:
- Voter Master
- Target Master
- Worker Master
- Contestant Master
- Control Centre
- Reports Centre
- Vote Forecast
- Voting Status Update
- Voter Contact detail Update
- Find Voter
Technologies Used:
- Microsoft .Net 1.1
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Microsoft SQL Server Express
- Crystal Reports
- Microsoft Office 2003
Software Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows XP Home / Professional Edition
- Microsoft Office 2003/2007
Hardware Requirements:
| Detail | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|
| Processor |
Pentium III-compatible processor or higher - 600 MHz |
Pentium III-compatible processor or higher - 1GHz |
| Memory |
256 MB |
512 MB |
| Harddisk |
500 MB |
1 GB |
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