I approached the challenge by creating an Election Factory that produces Election contracts with customised TITLE, CANDIDATES, POSITIONS and a list of the addresses of all deployed elections to aid flexibility, this way owner of the contract can deploy Election contracts for multiple elections with the same specification as regards PRIVATE state variables and security but different use cases.
The project is structured to aid the ease of viewing the contracts:
contracts
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election.sol
electionAccessControl.sol
electionFactory.sol
IElectionFactory.sol
electionAccessControl contains the access specifier for the owner - CHAIRMAN and the voters - VOTERS to ensure the functions are accessed by only the one authorised for each function. election is the main election function with all the functions needed to carry out a successfull election. IElectionFactory describes the standard for the Election factory which it inherits while the electionFactory is the mother of all election smartcontract, it deploys the election contracts with all the required specifications TITLE, NUMBER OF CANDIDATES, POSITIONS, TIME CREATED and other important details.