GLENMUIR HIGH

MENT 2018/2SCHOOL
SCHOOL-BASED ASSESS019

Description of the Project

National general elections have been a recurring feature among the

democratic territories of the Caribbean. Every year, in one territory or another,
citizens exercise their right to elect a government of their choice. However, the
exercise is not without its attendant challenges of data management.
Thousands of votes are cast on the day of the elections and an anxious, waiting
public demands speed, efficiency and accuracy in the determination of results.

In preparation for the actual exercise, the Trinbarjam Elections Commission has
hired you to simulate the elections exercise as a test run, prior to the actual
elections which are to take place shortly in your country. You are required to
utilize suitable word-processing, web page design, spreadsheet, database
management as well as a programming application to design and implement
computer-based solutions to the tasks involved in the simulation of the
election process.

Spreadsheet

The Elections Commission has mandated that you design a spreadsheet that
will accept pertinent data on constituencies and candidates’ votes and
generate information that would enable the outcome of the elections to be
divulged to the population in the shortest possible time. Four parties contest
the elections: The Democratic Action Party (DAP), the Workers National
Alliance (WNA), the United Progressive Movement (UPM), and the
People’s Democratic Revolution (PDR). The spreadsheet is design to accept
data from seven constituencies.
You are required to:

Task 1

1. (a) Design a spreadsheet with the below table in sheet 1.

Percentage Voter Turnout

Constituency

North 0.75

South 0.85

East 0.90

West 0.80

North West 0.75

South West 0.88

East Central 0.82

(b) Using another worksheet design a table to record the:

Constituency

Number of voters (The number of voters in a constituency ranges

from 6,250 to 10,795.)

Votes Cast

Candidate’s name

Candidate rating (The rating assigned to candidates are 15, 20,

30 and 35. These ratings were determined by the results of a recent poll
conducted in each
 constituency by a noted pollster. Each candidate in a given
constituency has a unique rating).

Party name

You must enter data for each candidate in each of the seven constituencies.
Use the Percentage Voter Turnout data to determine the number of votes
cast (number of voters * percentage voter turnout).

Rename the worksheet as Elections Data

Save your spreadsheet as Elections

Task 2

Duplicate the Elections Data worksheet. Rename the duplicate as Elections

Data Backup.

Modify the Elections Data worksheet as follows:

1. (Insert a column before the one which displays the name of the political
party. Using an appropriate column title, determine the votes received
by each candidate in a given constituency. The candidate’s rating
represents the percentage of votes received by the candidate in a
given constituency. For example, given that 6400 votes were cast and
a candidate has a rating of 20, the votes received by the candidate
would be 20/100*6400.

Format the votes received by each candidate to zero decimal places.

2. Sort the data first on party (ascending order) and secondly on votes
received (descending order).

3. The Trinbarjam Elections Commission needs to determine the following:

@ Whether or not a refund is due to a candidate. Use an

 appropriately labelled column to state “Refund Due” or “No
Refund” for each candidate. A refund is due if the candidate’s
votes received equals or exceeds 20 per cent of the votes cast in
the constituency.

@ A list of all candidates who should receive a refund. Extract

the data to the bottom of the worksheet.

@ A table with summary data for the elections

Elections Data

Total Votes
Party Percentage of Votes Cast
Received

Total Votes Cast

Constituency No. of Voters Votes Cast Abstention

Note the following:

Format the Percentage of Votes Cast to one decimal place with

the percent symbol.

Centre the data in the worksheet.

Merge and centre the cells in the row with the label “Elections
Data”
 Charting and Summary Operations

Generate a column graph that compares the votes cast and abstention data
by constituency. Provide an appropriate title, label the axes and display the
data
labels.

Create a pivot table showing the constituencies, the candidates’ names and
the
total number of votes the candidates received.

Save your spreadsheet as Elections

Database Management

You are asked to use a suitable application to manage data on candidates

nominated to contest seats in the general elections. Three tables must be used
to store the data. The table with relevant personal data on each candidate
should include: name, address, date of birth, gender, profession, constituency,
constituency number, party and votes received. The constituency data table
should include: the constituency name, constituency number and the number
of voters in each constituency. An elections data table should include: the
constituency number and the percentage voter turnout for each constituency.

The data to populate the tables must be sourced from the spreadsheet
section of your project.

You should test your database by generating queries, reports and control
forms: Queries:

1. List the name, sex, age and profession of all candidates from the People’s
Democratic Revolution (PDR).

2. List the candidate name, party, number of voters and number of votes
received for candidates in constituencies with more than 6500 voters
and where the candidates received less than 1000 of the votes. Sort the
data in descending order on the number of votes received by the
 candidate.

3. Using a calculated field determine the total votes cast in each

constituency.

Report

4. Generate a report which lists the constituency, number of voters in the

constituency, name of candidates, gender, party and number of votes received.
The report should be grouped by constituency. Within each constituency the
report should be sorted in descending order by number of votes received by
each candidate. It should also give the total and average number of votes in
each constituency. The report should have a two-line title as follows:

“Official Results

Trinbarjam National Elections”

Control Forms

5. Create a form to display information about the candidates.

Word-processing

Document 1

1. Each candidate must complete and submit a nomination form to the

Trinbarjam Elections Commission. You are required to:

(a) Design a fillable nomination form. It must allow for the entry of
relevant data on the candidate, including the constituency which
he/she intends to contest.
(i) The letter head (with company Logo) of the Trinbarjam
Elections Commission should be placed at the top.

Document 2

2. The results of the national elections must be delivered to each

candidate. Using a suitable feature of your word processing application:
 (a) Create a document which should be mailed to the candidates. The
requirements for the letter are:

. (i)  It must be design on letter sized paper and must have a 0.7”
margin on the left and right sides.

. (ii)  The commission’s letterhead (with company Logo) should be

placed as the header in the letter. The font in the letterhead
should be appropriately formatted for emphasis.

. (iii)  Candidate’s address.

. (iv)  Salutation.

. (v)  The first paragraph should congratulate and thank the

candidates (insert candidate’s name in the letter) for the manner
in which he/she conducts his or her campaign.

. (vi)  A summary table of results should be included with at least

seven rows and three columns, with appropriate formats.

. (vii)  The third paragraph inviting him/her to view the complete

listing of the results on the commission’s website and conclude the
letter.

. (viii)  Close with your name, your position is Chief Electoral Officer.

Web Page Design

The Trinbarjam Elections Commission has requested that you design a web
page to provide the public with general information about the election. The
web page should include the following:

The commission’s logo

Display information about the elections (for example the total

votes received by each party and the number of votes cast in each
constituency).

Links to the commission’s email address and a web page which

 displays past election data results (this web page may or may not exist).

Data used in the web page should be sourced from the spreadsheet section
of the project.

Problem-Solving

1. Develop an algorithm to print the names of the candidates who should

receive a refund. A refund is due if the candidate’s votes received equals
or exceeds 20 per cent of the votes cast in the constituency. The
algorithm should also determine and print the number of candidates
who received a refund. Test the algorithm with data from ten
candidates. The algorithm must accept as input the names of the
candidates, votes received and the votes cast in the constituency. The
algorithm should print the name of the candidate and the words “Refund
Due” or “No Refund” and the number of candidates who received a
refund. Data to test the algorithm must be sourced from the
spreadsheet section of the project.

2. Design and execute a trace table to test the algorithm developed in

question (1) above. The table should have a maximum of ten iterations.

Program Implementation

1. (a) Develop a problem statement for the algorithm developed in

question (1) above.

(b) Using the programming language Pascal or VBA, write code to

implement/automate the algorithm in question (1) above.
ADAPTED CXC CSEC 2018/SYLL