electronic voting.......

[bossdak]

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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28174

[jerx d great]

mao nay problem ana part!!

[kyuusai]

sakto ka jerx.. problema jud!.. wahaha..

[klavel]

another "worth millions"-budget to be allotted for that plan...i doubt it will push through this time...i remember it should have been used the last presidential elections (correct me if i'm wrong)..that was a big waste of money..the machines were already there and last minute, the gov't. decided to use the old-fashioned voting system...

the electronic voting would be convenient for the teachers as well as for the voters, though i still don't know how this system works...the question still remains though...is the Phils. ready for it? esp. those far away barrios where technology is just a dream? can this actually eliminate or at least minimize election fraud??

[samsungster]

its really a problem... daghan kwarta na usik...

[bossdak]

convenient pud kaayo pag tikas...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28174

"Ten days before a 2002 election in Georgia Diebold was told a machine was malfunctioning and workers were told to apply a patch in a big rush.

Unfortunately the patch was not approved by the state of Georgia and it didn't actually repair one of the things that were wrong with the machine. Mysteriously Georgia voted in its first Republican governor. Diebold's chairman Wally O’Dell is a key fundraiser for President Bush.

This corroborates a claim by Diebold contractor Rob Behler that a program patch titled 'rob-georgia.zip' was left on an unsecured server and downloaded over the Internet by Diebold technicians before loading the unauthorized software onto Georgia voting machines. "

[giver_bert]

going for electronic voting, would mean less tangible documentation and increase in the likelihood of vote manipulation... not to mention an added avenue for government entities concerned..

[Visual C#]

As with any computer system or network, humans are always the weakest link in the loop.

IMO, electronic voting is just vastly superior as compared to manual voting. The only problem left to tackle is it's implementation:

1.) Will the program source code and implementation be based on open standards? Taken from this Wikipedia article:

Open source software, based on its established track record related to security design (as opposed to the "security through obscurity" approach by proprietary software), would provide a large degree of transparency for such systems, at the cost of loss of exclusivity to vendors.

If we are going to go with proprietary systems, we are going to effectively be at the mercy of the company/vendor who created the voting machines. A greedy/corrupt politico can simply pay off that company to rig their voting machines to give that politico an instant advantage over his rivals.

2.) What type of system are we going to implement? There are several viable options available:

Direct Recording Electronic

Direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines are often favored because they can incorporate assistive technologies for handicapped people, allowing them to vote without involving another person in the process. However, most DRE's do not keep a voter verifiable paper ballot for re-counts and audits, making them arguably the least secure of all voting systems invented to date.

Mark-sense (optical scan) voting

In mark-sense voting the user marks a paper ballot and feeds it into a ballot box. The votes may be tallied by automatic sensors at a central location or at the precinct. With precinct-tallied votes, the systems usually verify that the ballot is legitimate as they accept the ballot.

Improper marks on the ballot are the primary cause of problems with mark-sense voting. The marks may be inadvertent, accidentally outside the prescribed locations, made with an incompatible writing instrument, or incomplete.
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Punch card voting

With punch card ballots, voters create holes in prepared ballot cards to indicate their choices. There are two main vendor systems, Datavote and Votomatic. Datavote systems use a cutting tool and vacuum to clean away material from unperforated cards indicating the voters' choices. Votomatic machines require the voter to punch out a perforated rectangle (ie, a chad) from the card using a stylus.

The Datavote systems tend to have higher accuracy than Votomatic machines. Votomatic machines suffer from all manner of problems related to handling the perforated cards - problems that featured prominently in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election.
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Internet voting

With Internet voting people cast their ballots online, generally via a web interface, although email voting has occasionally been tried. With web voting the voter navigates to the proper election site using a web browser on an ordinary PC and authenticates himself or herself to see the appropriate blank ballot form presented onscreen. The voter then fills out the ballot form and, when satisfied, clicks the "cast vote" button to send the completed ballot back to the election server.

The use of Internet voting for public elections, where the security, privacy, and auditability standards are much higher, is often considered prohibitively dangerous because of security problems inherent in the PC and in the Internet. The main weakness of the PC architecture is its vulnerability to malicious code, which can be introduced through countless different channels to interfere with voting in often undetectable ways.

3.) Can it be implemented in our country? A big resounding YES; we have the budget and the means to do so; the only thing lacking is the political will.

A lot of options and problems, indeed. However, we are in the 21st century, and by sticking to manual voting systems, we are effectively locking ourselves in in the past.

[jerx d great]

electronic voting is good!!

but we should see to it that the system they [comelec] are using is effective and cant hack for cheating!!!! but this needs time for orientation and seminars for the majority of the filipino who don't know how to use the computer!!

[darkwing]

ambot unsaon pagimplement ani sa ato, wala man gani ma balik ang P1 billion para sa voting machines from Pacific *!@#*!